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Graph-based modeling plays a fundamental role in many areas of computer science. In this paper, we introduce systems of graph formulas with variables for specifying graph properties; this notion generalizes the graph formulas introduced in…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Frank Drewes , Berthold Hoffmann , Mark Minas

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

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a powerful tool for solving real-world problems. However, many problems involve numeric values and complex constraints beyond the capabilities of standard ASP solvers. Hybrid solvers like CLINGCON and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Nicolas Rühling

We develop an inductive proof-technique to generate imperative programs for pointer data structures from behavioural specifications expressed in the Answer Set Programming (ASP) formalism. ASP is a non-monotonic logic based formalism that…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Sarat Chandra Varanasi , Neeraj Mittal , Gopal Gupta

We present a system capable of automatically solving combinatorial logic puzzles given in (simplified) English. It involves translating the English descriptions of the puzzles into answer set programming(ASP) and using ASP solvers to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2011-08-22 Chitta Baral , Juraj Dzifcak

Abstraction is a well-known approach to simplify a complex problem by over-approximating it with a deliberate loss of information. It was not considered so far in Answer Set Programming (ASP), a convenient tool for problem solving. We…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Zeynep G. Saribatur , Thomas Eiter

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

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

We build on a recently proposed method for explaining solutions of constraint satisfaction problems. An explanation here is a sequence of simple inference steps, where the simplicity of an inference step is measured by the number and types…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Emilio Gamba , Bart Bogaerts , Tias Guns

Recent commonsense-reasoning tasks are typically discriminative in nature, where a model answers a multiple-choice question for a certain context. Discriminative tasks are limiting because they fail to adequately evaluate the model's…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Swarnadeep Saha , Prateek Yadav , Lisa Bauer , Mohit Bansal

Within the area of computational models of argumentation, the instantiation-based approach is gaining more and more attention, not at least because meaningful input for Dung's abstract frameworks is provided in that way. In a nutshell, the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-09 Günther Charwat , Johannes Peter Wallner , Stefan Woltran

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become a powerful tool for modeling and analyzing data with graph structures. The wide adoption in numerous applications underscores the value of these models. However, the complexity of these methods often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Tien Cuong Bui

Open Answer Set Programming (OASP) is an attractive framework for integrating ontologies and rules. In general OASP is undecidable. In previous work we provided a tableau-based algorithm for satisfiability checking w.r.t. forest logic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-11-30 Cristina Feier , Stijn Heymans

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a problem modeling and solving framework for several problems in KR with growing industrial applications. Also for studies of computational complexity and deeper insights into the hardness and its sources,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Markus Hecher

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a logic-based knowledge representation framework, supporting---among other reasoning modes---the central task of query answering. In the propositional case, query answering amounts to computing cautious…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Mario Alviano , Carmine Dodaro , Matti Järvisalo , Marco Maratea , Alessandro Previti

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) is a paradigm for modeling knowledge intensive domains and solving challenging reasoning problems. In ASP solving, a typical strategy is to preprocess problem instances by rewriting complex rules into simpler…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Jori Bomanson , Tomi Janhunen

We present alternative approaches to routing and scheduling in Answer Set Programming (ASP), and explore them in the context of Multi-agent Path Finding. The idea is to capture the flow of time in terms of partial orders rather than time…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Roland Kaminski , Torsten Schaub , Tran Cao Son , Jiří Švancara , Philipp Wanko

The generation of natural language text from data series gained renewed interest among AI research goals. Not surprisingly, the few proposals in the state of the art are based on training some system, in order to produce a text that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Alessandro Dal Palù , Agostino Dovier , Andrea Formisano

Answer-Set Programming (ASP) is an established declarative programming paradigm. However, classical ASP lacks subprogram calls as in procedural programming, and access to external computations (like remote procedure calls) in general. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-09-01 Thomas Eiter , Thomas Krennwallner , Christoph Redl