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Gossip protocols have been proposed as a robust and efficient method for disseminating information throughout large-scale networks. In this paper, we propose a compositional analysis technique to study formal probabilistic models of gossip…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Ruggero Lanotte , Massimo Merro , Simone Tini

In this paper we consider Epistemic Logic Programs, which extend Answer Set Programming (ASP) with "epistemic operators" and "epistemic negation", and a recent approach to the semantics of such programs in terms of World Views. We propose…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Stefania Costantini

The dominating set reconfiguration problem is defined as determining, for a given dominating set problem and two among its feasible solutions, whether one is reachable from the other via a sequence of feasible solutions subject to a certain…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Masato Kato , Torsten Schaub , Takehide Soh , Naoyuki Tamura , Mutsunori Banbara

We study a gossip-based algorithm for searching data objects in a multipeer communication network. All of the nodes in the network are able to communicate with each other. There exists an initiator node that starts a round of searches by…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-07-16 Eva Jaho , Ioannis Koukoutsidis , Siyu Tang , Ioannis Stavrakakis , Piet Van Mieghem

In this paper, we study gossip algorithms in communication models that describe the peer-to-peer networking functionality included in most standard smartphone operating systems. We begin by describing and analyzing a new synchronous gossip…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Calvin Newport , Alex Weaver , Chaodong Zheng

In this work we present three different randomized gossip algorithms for solving the average consensus problem while at the same time protecting the information about the initial private values stored at the nodes. We give iteration…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-26 Filip Hanzely , Jakub Konečný , Nicolas Loizou , Peter Richtárik , Dmitry Grishchenko

A fundamental question in systems biology is the construction and training to data of mathematical models. Logic formalisms have become very popular to model signaling networks because their simplicity allows us to model large systems…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2012-12-27 Santiago Videla , Carito Guziolowski , Federica Eduati , Sven Thiele , Niels Grabe , Julio Saez-Rodriguez , Anne Siegel

As the interest in Artificial Intelligence continues to grow it is becoming more and more important to investigate formalization and tools that allow us to exploit logic to reason about the world. In particular, given the increasing number…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Francesco Fabiano

We introduce an approach to detecting inconsistencies in large biological networks by using Answer Set Programming (ASP). To this end, we build upon a recently proposed notion of consistency between biochemical/genetic reactions and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-07-02 Martin Gebser , Torsten Schaub , Sven Thiele , Philippe Veber

In this work, answer-set programs that specify repairs of databases are used as a basis for solving computational and reasoning problems about causes for query answers from databases.

Databases · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Leopoldo Bertossi

Various planning-based know-how logics have been studied in the recent literature. In this paper, we use such a logic to do know-how-based planning via model checking. In particular, we can handle the higher-order epistemic planning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Yanjun Li , Yanjing Wang

Over the last couple of decades, there has been a considerable effort devoted to the problem of updating logic programs under the stable model semantics (a.k.a. answer-set programs) or, in other words, the problem of characterising the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-22 João Leite , Martin Slota

Peer to peer (P2P) systems are moving from application specific architectures to a generic service oriented design philosophy. This raises interesting problems in connection with providing useful P2P middleware services capable of dealing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-12-27 Antonio Fernandez , Vincent Gramoli , Ernesto Jimenez , Anne-Marie Kermarrec , Michel Raynal

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

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

This paper presents a practical application of Answer Set Programming to the understanding of narratives about restaurants. While this task was investigated in depth by Erik Mueller, exceptional scenarios remained a serious challenge for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Qinglin Zhang , Chris Benton , Daniela Inclezan

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

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a successful method for solving a range of real-world applications. Despite the availability of fast ASP solvers, computing answer sets demands a very large computational power, since the problem tackled is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Rachel Ben-Eliyahu-Zohary

In this short note we propose a new approach for the design and analysis of randomized gossip algorithms which can be used to solve the average consensus problem. We show how that Randomized Block Kaczmarz (RBK) method - a method for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Nicolas Loizou , Peter Richtárik

As agentic platforms scale, agents are moving beyond fixed roles and predefined toolchains, creating an urgent need for flexible and decentralized coordination. Current structured communication protocols such as direct agent-to-agent…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Nafiul I. Khan , Mansura Habiba , Rafflesia Khan