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A major driver behind the success of modern machine learning algorithms has been their ability to process ever-larger amounts of data. As a result, the use of distributed systems in both research and production has become increasingly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Fan Yang , Gabriel Barth-Maron , Piotr Stańczyk , Matthew Hoffman , Siqi Liu , Manuel Kroiss , Aedan Pope , Alban Rrustemi

Artificial Intelligence (AI) approaches to problem-solving and decision-making are becoming more and more complex, leading to a decrease in the understandability of solutions. The European Union's new General Data Protection Regulation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Jorge Fandinno , Claudia Schulz

We propose SPARC, a lightweight continual learning framework for large language models (LLMs) that enables efficient task adaptation through prompt tuning in a lower-dimensional space. By leveraging principal component analysis (PCA), we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Dinithi Jayasuriya , Sina Tayebati , Davide Ettori , Ranganath Krishnan , Amit Ranjan Trivedi

There are some recent approaches and results about the use of answer-set programming for specifying counterfactual interventions on entities under classification, and reasoning about them. These approaches are flexible and modular in that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Leopoldo Bertossi

We deal with a challenging scheduling problem on parallel machines with sequence-dependent setup times and release dates from a real-world application of semiconductor work-shop production. There, jobs can only be processed by dedicated…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Thomas Eiter , Tobias Geibinger , Nysret Musliu , Johannes Oetsch , Peter Skocovsky , Daria Stepanova

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

This paper describes the design and evaluation of DSAScratch, an extension to Scratch, a widely used block-based programming language. The DSAScratch framework implements advanced data structures such as arrays, sets, dictionaries, and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Ashwin Jagadeesha , Pranathi Rayavaram , Justin Marward , Sashank Narain , Claire Seungeun Lee

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

Linear programming is now included in algorithm undergraduate and postgraduate courses for computer science majors. We give a self-contained treatment of an interior-point method which is particularly tailored to the typical mathematical…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-07 Kurt Mehlhorn , Sanjeev Saxena

Recent research in extensions of Answer Set Programming has included a renewed interest in the language of Epistemic Specifications, which adds modal operators K ("known") and M ("may be true") to provide for more powerful introspective…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Anthony P. Leclerc , Patrick Thor Kahl

It has been argued that computational thinking should precede computer programming in the course of a career in computing. This argument is the basis for the slogan "logic first, syntax later" and the development of many cryptic syntax…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Patrick Vanvorce , Hasan M. Jamil

The IPARC Challenge, inspired by ARC, provides controlled program synthesis tasks over synthetic images to evaluate automatic program construction, focusing on sequence, selection, and iteration. This set of 600 tasks has resisted automated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Shraddha Surana , Ashwin Srinivasan , Michael Bain

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is an expressive knowledge representation and reasoning framework. Due to its rather simple syntax paired with high-performance solvers, ASP is interesting for industrial applications. However, to err is human…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-11-16 Philip Gasteiger , Carmine Dodaro , Benjamin Musitsch , Kristian Reale , Francesco Ricca , Konstantin Schekotihin

Existing reasoning datasets saturate and fail to test abstract, multi-step problems, especially pathfinding and complex rule constraint satisfaction. We introduce SPaRC (Spatial Pathfinding Reasoning Challenge), a dataset of 1,000 2D grid…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Lars Benedikt Kaesberg , Jan Philip Wahle , Terry Ruas , Bela Gipp

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a declarative logic programming formalism, which is employed nowadays in both academic and industrial real-world applications. Although some tools for supporting the development of ASP programs have been…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2011-08-30 Onofrio Febbraro , Nicola Leone , Kristian Reale , Francesco Ricca

We introduce a framework for supporting learning to program in the paradigm of Answer Set Programming (ASP), which is a declarative logic programming formalism. Based on the idea of teaching by asking the student to complete small example…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-08-12 Gokhan Avci , Mustafa Mehuljic , Peter Schüller

Many logic programming based approaches can be used to describe and solve combinatorial search problems. On the one hand there is constraint logic programming which computes a solution as an answer substitution to a query containing the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Nikolay Pelov , Emmanuel De Mot , Marc Denecker

Over the last decade, the use of robots in production and daily life has increased. With increasingly complex tasks and interaction in different environments including humans, robots are required a higher level of autonomy for efficient…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Daniele Meli , Hirenkumar Nakawala , Paolo Fiorini

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a well-established formalism for logic programming. Problem solving in ASP requires to write an ASP program whose answers sets correspond to solutions. Albeit the non-existence of answer sets for some ASP…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Giovanni Amendola , Carmine Dodaro , Francesco Ricca

Complex Event Recognition (CER) systems detect event occurrences in streaming time-stamped input using predefined event patterns. Logic-based approaches are of special interest in CER, since, via Statistical Relational AI, they combine…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Nikos Katzouris , Alexander Artikis , Georgios Paliouras