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Answer set programming (ASP) aims to realize the AI vision: The user specifies the problem, and the computer solves it. Indeed, ASP has made this vision true in many application domains. However, will current ASP solving techniques scale up…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Veronika Semmelrock , Gerhard Friedrich

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

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a prominent problem-modeling and solving framework, whose solutions are called answer sets. Epistemic logic programs (ELP) extend ASP to reason about all or some answer sets. Solutions to an ELP can be seen…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Thomas Eiter , Johannes K. Fichte , Markus Hecher , Stefan Woltran

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a well-known problem solving approach based on nonmonotonic logic programs. HEX-programs extend ASP with external atoms for accessing arbitrary external information, which can introduce values that do not…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Christoph Redl

Answer set programming (ASP) and planning are two widely used paradigms for solving logic programs with declarative programming. In both cases, the quality of the input programs has a major influence on the quality and performance of the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Patrick Lühne

While the solution counting problem for propositional satisfiability (#SAT) has received renewed attention in recent years, this research trend has not affected other AI solving paradigms like answer set programming (ASP). Although ASP…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-12-23 Johannes Fichte , Markus Hecher , Michael Morak , Stefan Woltran

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

Nested answer set programming (NASP; Lifschitz et al., 1999) generalizes answer set programming (ASP) by admitting nested expressions in rule bodies and heads, and thus, NASP aims at exploiting program succinctness. Yet, although NASP…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Gonzalo E. Imaz

Encoding finite linear CSPs as Boolean formulas and solving them by using modern SAT solvers has proven to be highly effective, as exemplified by the award-winning sugar system. We here develop an alternative approach based on ASP. This…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-12-23 Mutsunori Banbara , Martin Gebser , Katsumi Inoue , Torsten Schaub , Takehide Soh , Naoyuki Tamura , Matthias Weise

In recent years, Answer Set Programming (ASP), logic programming under the stable model or answer set semantics, has seen several extensions by generalizing the notion of an atom in these programs: be it aggregate atoms, HEX atoms,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-12-23 Mario Alviano , Wolfgang Faber

It is well known that, under certain conditions, it is possible to split logic programs under stable model semantics, i.e. to divide such a program into a number of different "levels", such that the models of the entire program can be…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Joost Vennekens , David Gilis , Marc Denecker

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a well-known problem-solving formalism in computational logic. Nowadays, ASP is used in many real world scenarios thanks to ASP solvers. Standard evaluation of ASP programs suffers from an intrinsic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Giuseppe Mazzotta

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

Programming Computable Functions (PCF) is a simplified programming language which provides the theoretical basis of modern functional programming languages. Answer set programming (ASP) is a programming paradigm focused on solving search…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Ingmar Dasseville , Marc Denecker

Possibilistic answer set programming (PASP) extends answer set programming (ASP) by attaching to each rule a degree of certainty. While such an extension is important from an application point of view, existing semantics are not…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-03-19 Kim Bauters , Steven Schockaert , Martine De Cock , Dirk Vermeir

Epistemic logic programs (ELPs) are a popular generalization of standard Answer Set Programming (ASP) providing means for reasoning over answer sets within the language. This richer formalism comes at the price of higher computational…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Markus Hecher , Michael Morak , Stefan Woltran

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

In answer set programming (ASP), a problem at hand is solved by (i) writing a logic program whose answer sets correspond to the solutions of the problem, and by (ii) computing the answer sets of the program using an answer set solver as a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Tomi Janhunen , Emilia Oikarinen

Answer set programming (ASP) is a well-established knowledge representation formalism. Most ASP solvers are based on (extensions of) technology from Boolean satisfiability solving. While these solvers have shown to be very successful in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Wolf De Wulf , Bart Bogaerts

We propose a new formal language for the expressive representation of probabilistic knowledge based on Answer Set Programming (ASP). It allows for the annotation of first-order formulas as well as ASP rules and facts with probabilities and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-05-06 Matthias Nickles , Alessandra Mileo