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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

Query answering in Answer Set Programming (ASP) is usually solved by computing (a subset of) the cautious consequences of a logic program. This task is computationally very hard, and there are programs for which computing cautious…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Mario Alviano , Carmine Dodaro , Francesco Ricca

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

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 present a general approach to planning with incomplete information in Answer Set Programming (ASP). More precisely, we consider the problems of conformant and conditional planning with sensing actions and assumptions. We represent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Jorge Fandinno , François Laferrière , Javier Romero , Torsten Schaub , Tran Cao Son

We introduce an implementation of an extension of Answer Set Programming (ASP) with language constructs from dynamic (and temporal) logic that provides an expressive computational framework for modeling dynamic applications. Starting from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Pedro Cabalar , Martín Diéguez , Torsten Schaub , François Laferrière

We discuss the evolution of aspects of nonmonotonic reasoning towards the computational paradigm of answer-set programming (ASP). We give a general overview of the roots of ASP and follow up with the personal perspective on research…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-08-17 Victor W. Marek , Ilkka Niemela , Miroslaw Truszczynski

We elaborate upon the formal foundations of hybrid Answer Set Programming (ASP) and extend its underlying logical framework with aggregate functions over constraint values and variables. This is achieved by introducing the construct of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Pedro Cabalar , Jorge Fandinno , Torsten Schaub , Philipp Wanko

In this paper, we examine the use of Conformal Language Modelling (CLM) alongside Answer Set Programming (ASP) to enhance the performance of standard open-weight LLMs on complex multi-step reasoning tasks. Using the StepGame dataset, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Navdeep Kaur , Lachlan McPheat , Alessandra Russo , Anthony G Cohn , Pranava Madhyastha

The decoupling between the representation of a certain problem, i.e., its knowledge model, and the reasoning side is one of main strong points of model-based Artificial Intelligence (AI). This allows, e.g. to focus on improving the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Carmine Dodaro , Marco Maratea , Mauro Vallati

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is one of the major declarative programming paradigms in the area of logic programming and non-monotonic reasoning. Despite that ASP features a simple syntax and an intuitive semantics, errors are common during…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Carmine Dodaro , Philip Gasteiger , Kristian Reale , Francesco Ricca , Konstantin Schekotihin

We propose answer-set programs that specify and compute counterfactual interventions as a basis for causality-based explanations to decisions produced by classification models. They can be applied with black-box models and models that can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Leopoldo Bertossi

Argument Mining (AM) helps in automating the extraction of complex argumentative structures such as Argument Components (ACs) like Premise, Claim etc. and Argumentative Relations (ARs) like Support, Attack etc. in an argumentative text. Due…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Nilmadhab Das , Vishal Vaibhav , Yash Sunil Choudhary , V. Vijaya Saradhi , Ashish Anand

Answer-Set Programming (ASP) is a powerful and expressive knowledge representation paradigm with a significant number of applications in logic-based AI. The traditional ground-and-solve approach, however, requires ASP programs to be…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Antonius Weinzierl , Richard Taupe , Gerhard Friedrich

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

This technical report describes the usage, syntax, semantics and core algorithms of the probabilistic inductive logic programming framework PrASP. PrASP is a research software which integrates non-monotonic reasoning based on Answer Set…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-01-02 Matthias Nickles

We explore the use of answer set programming (ASP) and its extension with quantifiers, ASP(Q), for inconsistency-tolerant querying of prioritized data, where a priority relation between conflicting facts is exploited to define three notions…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Meghyn Bienvenu , Camille Bourgaux , Robin Jean , Giuseppe Mazzotta

One of the most challenging problems facing NLP today is evaluation. Some of the most pressing issues pertain to benchmark saturation, data contamination, and diversity in the quality of test examples. To address these concerns, we propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Vipul Gupta , Candace Ross , David Pantoja , Rebecca J. Passonneau , Megan Ung , Adina Williams

While programming is one of the most broadly applicable skills in modern society, modern machine learning models still cannot code solutions to basic problems. Despite its importance, there has been surprisingly little work on evaluating…

Prior work on Automatically Scalable Computation (ASC) suggests that it is possible to parallelize sequential computation by building a model of whole-program execution, using that model to predict future computations, and then…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Peter Kraft , Amos Waterland , Daniel Y Fu , Anitha Gollamudi , Shai Szulanski , Margo Seltzer