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Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a logic programming paradigm featuring a purely declarative language with comparatively high modeling capabilities. Indeed, ASP can model problems in NP in a compact and elegant way. However, modeling…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Giovanni Amendola , Francesco Ricca , Mirek Truszczynski

Answer set programming (ASP) is a logic programming formalism used in various areas of artificial intelligence like combinatorial problem solving and knowledge representation and reasoning. It is known that enhancing ASP with function…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Lukas Gerlach , David Carral , Markus Hecher

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

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a purely declarative formalism developed in the field of logic programming and nonmonotonic reasoning: computational problems are encoded by logic programs whose answer sets, corresponding to solutions, are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Francesco Calimeri , Simona Perri , Jessica Zangari

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a well-established declarative paradigm. One of the successes of ASP is the availability of efficient systems. State-of-the-art systems are based on the ground+solve approach. In some applications this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Bernardo Cuteri , Carmine Dodaro , Francesco Ricca , Peter Schüller

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a declarative programming language used for modeling and solving complex combinatorial problems. It has been successfully applied to a number of different realworld problems. However, learning its usage can…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Rafael Martins , Matthias Knorr , Ricardo Gonçalves

Answer set programming (ASP) is an efficient problem-solving approach, which has been strongly supported both scientifically and technologically by several solvers, ongoing active research, and implementations in many different fields.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Ezgi Iraz Su

Answer Set Programming (ASP) emerged in the late 1990ies as a paradigm for Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. The attractiveness of ASP builds on an expressive high-level modeling language along with the availability of powerful…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Mario Alviano , Wolfgang Faber , Martin Gebser

Ethical and legal concerns make it necessary for programs that may directly influence the life of people (via, e.g., legal or health counseling) to justify in human-understandable terms the advice given. Answer Set Programming has a rich…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Joaquín Arias , Manuel Carro , Zhuo Chen , Gopal Gupta

In this paper we exploit Answer Set Programming (ASP) for reasoning in a rational extension SROEL-R-T of the low complexity description logic SROEL, which underlies the OWL EL ontology language. In the extended language, a typicality…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Laura Giordano , Daniele Theseider Dupré

Weighted Logic is a powerful tool for the specification of calculations over semirings that depend on qualitative information. Using a novel combination of Weighted Logic and Here-and-There (HT) Logic, in which this dependence is based on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Thomas Eiter , Rafael Kiesel

We introduce and investigate here a formalisation for conditionals that allows the definition of a broad class of reasoning systems. This framework covers the most popular kinds of conditional reasoning in logic-based KR: the semantics we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Giovanni Casini , Umberto Straccia

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

In this paper, we study the problem of formal verification for Answer Set Programming (ASP), namely, obtaining a formal proof showing that the answer sets of a given (non-ground) logic program P correctly correspond to the solutions to the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Pedro Cabalar , Jorge Fandinno , Yuliya Lierler

Dealing with context dependent knowledge has led to different formalizations of the notion of context. Among them is the Contextualized Knowledge Repository (CKR) framework, which is rooted in description logics but links on the reasoning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Loris Bozzato , Thomas Eiter , Rafael Kiesel

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a popular framework for modeling combinatorial problems. However, ASP cannot easily be used for reasoning about uncertain information. Possibilistic ASP (PASP) is an extension of ASP that combines…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Kim Bauters , Steven Schockaert , Martine De Cock , Dirk Vermeir

Modern answer set programming solvers such as CLINGO support advanced language constructs that improve the expressivity and conciseness of logic programs. Conditional literals are one such construct. They form "subformulas" that behave as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Zachary Hansen , Yuliya Lierler

We propose analyzing conditional reasoning by appeal to a notion of intervention on a simulation program, formalizing and subsuming a number of approaches to conditional thinking in the recent AI literature. Our main results include a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Duligur Ibeling , Thomas Icard

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

Weighted knowledge bases for description logics with typicality have been recently considered under a "concept-wise" multipreference semantics (in both the two-valued and fuzzy case), as the basis of a logical semantics of MultiLayer…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Laura Giordano , Daniele Theseider Dupré