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In our daily lives and industrial settings, we often encounter dynamic problems that require reasoning over time and metric constraints. These include tasks such as scheduling, routing, and production sequencing. Dynamic logics have…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Susana Hahn

Public attention towards explainability of artificial intelligence (AI) systems has been rising in recent years to offer methodologies for human oversight. This has translated into the proliferation of research outputs, such as from…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Luca Nannini , Agathe Balayn , Adam Leon Smith

The design of efficient solutions for abstract argumentation problems is a crucial step towards advanced argumentation systems. One of the most prominent approaches in the literature is to use Answer-Set Programming (ASP) for this endeavor.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Sarah A. Gaggl , Norbert Manthey , Alessandro Ronca , Johannes P. Wallner , Stefan Woltran

Answer set programming (ASP) is a logic programming paradigm that can be used to solve complex combinatorial search problems. Aggregates are an ASP construct that plays an important role in many applications. Defining a satisfactory…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2008-12-09 Paolo Ferraris

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a widely used declarative programming paradigm that has shown great potential in solving complex computational problems. However, the inability to natively support non-integer arithmetic has been highlighted…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Francesco Pacenza , Jessica Zangari

This study explores the application of Answer Set Programming (ASP) for detecting anomalies in system logs, addressing the challenges posed by evolving cyber threats. We propose a novel framework that leverages ASP's declarative nature and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Fang Li , Fei Zuo , Gopal Gupta

An important issue towards a broader acceptance of answer-set programming (ASP) is the deployment of tools which support the programmer during the coding phase. In particular, methods for debugging an answer-set program are recognised as a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2010-07-29 Johannes Oetsch , Jörg Pührer , Hans Tompits

We propose a method for generating explainable rule sets from tree-ensemble learners using Answer Set Programming (ASP). To this end, we adopt a decompositional approach where the split structures of the base decision trees are exploited in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Akihiro Takemura , Katsumi Inoue

Ethical and legal concerns make it necessary for programs that may directly influence the life of people (via, e.g., legal or health counseling) to justify in human-understandable terms the advice given. Answer Set Programming has a rich…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Joaquín Arias , Manuel Carro , Zhuo Chen , Gopal Gupta

Answer-set programming (ASP) paradigm is a way of using logic to solve search problems. Given a search problem, to solve it one designs a theory in the logic so that models of this theory represent problem solutions. To compute a solution…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Deborah East , Miroslaw Truszczynski

This paper explores the contributions of Answer Set Programming (ASP) to the study of an established theory from the field of Second Language Acquisition: Input Processing. The theory describes default strategies that learners of a second…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Daniela Inclezan

We propose Answer Set Programming (ASP) as an approach for modeling and solving problems from the area of Declarative Process Mining (DPM). We consider here three classical problems, namely, Log Generation, Conformance Checking, and Query…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Francesco Chiariello , Fabrizio Maria Maggi , Fabio Patrizi

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a well-established paradigm of declarative programming that has been developed in the field of logic programming and nonmonotonic reasoning. Advances in ASP solving technology are customarily assessed in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-06-04 Francesco Calimeri , Martin Gebser , Marco Maratea , Francesco Ricca

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being increasingly used to develop systems that produce intelligent solutions. However, there is a major concern that whether the systems built will be trusted by humans. In order to establish trust in AI…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Quratul-ain Mahesar , Simon Parsons

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a declarative logic formalism that allows to encode computational problems via logic programs. Despite the declarative nature of the formalism, some advanced expertise is required, in general, for designing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Elena Mastria , Jessica Zangari , Simona Perri , Francesco Calimeri

Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly deployed in legal contexts, where their opacity raises significant challenges for fairness, accountability, and trust. The so-called ``black box problem'' undermines the legitimacy of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Andrada Iulia Prajescu , Roberto Confalonieri

Answer set programming (ASP) is a form of declarative programming that allows to succinctly formulate and efficiently solve complex problems. An intuitive extension of this formalism is communicating ASP, in which multiple ASP programs…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-09-13 Kim Bauters , Jeroen Janssen , Steven Schockaert , Dirk Vermeir , Martine De Cock

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a well-established declarative paradigm. One of the successes of ASP is the availability of efficient systems. State-of-the-art systems are based on the ground+solve approach. In some applications this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Bernardo Cuteri , Carmine Dodaro , Francesco Ricca , Peter Schüller

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a well-established declarative problem solving paradigm which became widely used in AI and recognized as a powerful tool for knowledge representation and reasoning (KRR), especially for its high…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-24 Francesco Calimeri , Davide Fuscà , Stefano Germano , Simona Perri , Jessica Zangari

European Law now requires AI to be explainable in the context of adverse decisions affecting European Union (EU) citizens. At the same time, it is expected that there will be increasing instances of AI failure as it operates on imperfect…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-08-28 J. L. Olds , M. S. Khan , M. Nayebpour , N. Koizumi