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Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a popular declarative reasoning and problem solving approach in symbolic AI. Its rule-based formalism makes it inherently attractive for explainable and interpretive reasoning, which is gaining importance…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Thomas Eiter , Tobias Geibinger , Zeynep G. Saribatur

As the practical use of answer set programming (ASP) has grown with the development of efficient solvers, we expect a growing interest in extensions of ASP as their semantics stabilize and solvers supporting them mature. Epistemic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-10-14 Patrick Thor Kahl , Anthony P. Leclerc , Tran Cao Son

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

In this paper, we present ASPEN, an answer set programming (ASP) implementation of a recently proposed declarative framework for collective entity resolution (ER). While an ASP encoding had been previously suggested, several practical…

Answer set programming is a prominent declarative programming paradigm used in formulating combinatorial search problems and implementing different knowledge representation formalisms. Frequently, several related and yet substantially…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Yuliya Lierler

Standard answer set programming (ASP) targets at solving search problems from the first level of the polynomial time hierarchy (PH). Tackling search problems beyond NP using ASP is less straightforward. The class of disjunctive logic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Bart Bogaerts , Tomi Janhunen , Shahab Tasharrofi

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a generic problem modeling and solving framework with a strong focus on knowledge representation and a rapid growth of industrial applications. So far, the study of complexity resulted in characterizing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Markus Hecher , Rafael Kiesel

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a prominent rule-based language for knowledge representation and reasoning with roots in logic programming and non-monotonic reasoning. The aim to capture the essence of removing (ir)relevant details in ASP…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Zeynep G. Saribatur , Stefan Woltran

Epistemic Logic Programs (ELPs), that is, Answer Set Programming (ASP) extended with epistemic operators, have received renewed interest in recent years, which led to a flurry of new research, as well as efficient solvers. An important…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Wolfgang Faber , Michael Morak , Stefan Woltran

We present a new use of Answer Set Programming (ASP) to discover the molecular structure of chemical samples based on the relative abundance of elements and structural fragments, as measured in mass spectrometry. To constrain the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Nils Küchenmeister , Alex Ivliev , Markus Krötzsch

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

Answer Set Programming (ASP) provides a powerful declarative paradigm for knowledge representation and reasoning. Recently, counting answer sets has emerged as an important computational problem with applications in probabilistic reasoning,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Mohimenul Kabir , Supratik Chakraborty , Kuldeep S Meel

Answer set programming (ASP) with disjunction offers a powerful tool for declaratively representing and solving hard problems. Many NP-complete problems can be encoded in the answer set semantics of logic programs in a very concise and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Thomas Eiter , Axel Polleres

Traditional Answer Set Programming (ASP) rests upon one-shot solving. A logic program is fed into an ASP system and its stable models are computed. The high practical relevance of dynamic applications led to the development of multi-shot…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-11-05 Martin Gebser , Phillip Obermeier , Torsten Schaub

Modern scientific software stacks have become extremely complex, using many programming models and libraries to exploit a growing variety of GPUs and accelerators. Package managers can mitigate this complexity using dependency solvers, but…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Todd Gamblin , Massimiliano Culpo , Gregory Becker , Sergei Shudler

Answer Set Programming (ASP) solvers are highly-tuned and complex procedures that implicitly solve the consistency problem, i.e., deciding whether a logic program admits an answer set. Verifying whether a claimed answer set is formally a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Mario Alviano , Carmine Dodaro , Johannes K. Fichte , Markus Hecher , Tobias Philipp , Jakob Rath

Epistemic Logic Programs (ELPs) are an extension of Answer Set Programming (ASP) with epistemic operators that allow for a form of meta-reasoning, that is, reasoning over multiple possible worlds. Existing ELP solving approaches generally…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Manuel Bichler , Michael Morak , Stefan Woltran

In Answer Set Programming (ASP), the user can define declaratively a problem and solve it with efficient solvers; practical applications of ASP are countless and several constraint problems have been successfully solved with ASP. On the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Paola Cappanera , Marco Gavanelli , Maddalena Nonato , Marco Roma

Answer set programming (ASP) is a popular declarative programming paradigm with a wide range of applications in artificial intelligence. Oftentimes, when modeling an AI problem with ASP, and in particular when we are interested beyond…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Johannes K. Fichte , Sarah Alice Gaggl , Dominik Rusovac

We propose an end-to-end approach for Answer Set Programming (ASP) and linear algebraically compute stable models satisfying given constraints. The idea is to implement Lin-Zhao's theorem together with constraints directly in vector spaces…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Taisuke Sato , Akihiro Takemura , Katsumi Inoue