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We propose Answer Set Programming (ASP) as an approach for modeling and solving problems from the area of Declarative Process Mining (DPM). We consider here three classical problems, namely, Log Generation, Conformance Checking, and Query…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Francesco Chiariello , Fabrizio Maria Maggi , Fabio Patrizi

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

Many modern solvers and program analyzers rely on non-monotone reasoning (e.g. negation-as-failure, speculative updates, backtracking) for which classical monotone fixed-point methods do not apply. The general problem of finding the fixed…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Abdullah H. Rasheed , Vijay K. Garg

Answer set programming (ASP) is a well-established logic programming language that offers an intuitive, declarative syntax for problem solving. In its traditional application, a fixed ASP program for a given problem is designed and the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-08-08 Manuel Bichler , Michael Morak , Stefan Woltran

Answer Set Programming Modulo Theories (ASPMT) is a new framework of tight integration of answer set programming (ASP) and satisfiability modulo theories (SMT). Similar to the relationship between first-order logic and SMT, it is based on a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Joohyung Lee , Yunsong Meng

Frugal resolvent splittings are a class of fixed point algorithms for finding a zero in the sum of the sum of finitely many set-valued monotone operators, where the fixed point operator uses only vector addition, scalar multiplication and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-06 Matthew K. Tam

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a well-established formalism for logic programming. Problem solving in ASP requires to write an ASP program whose answers sets correspond to solutions. Albeit the non-existence of answer sets for some ASP…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Giovanni Amendola , Carmine Dodaro , Francesco Ricca

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a powerful declarative programming paradigm commonly used for solving challenging search and optimization problems. The modeling languages of ASP are supported by sophisticated solving algorithms (solvers)…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Zach Hansen

CiaoPP is an analyzer and optimizer for logic programs, part of the Ciao Prolog system. It includes PLAI, a fixpoint algorithm for the abstract interpretation of logic programs which we adapt to use tabled constraint logic programming. In…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Joaquin Arias , Manuel Carro

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 well-known declarative formalism in logic programming. Efficient implementations made it possible to apply ASP in many scenarios, ranging from deductive databases applications to the solution of hard…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Bernardo Cuteri , Carmine Dodaro , Francesco Ricca , Peter Schüller

As a programming paradigm, answer set programming (ASP) brings about the usual issue of the human error. Hence, it is desirable to provide automated techniques that could help the programmer to find the error. This paper addresses the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-07-01 Mikoláš Janota , Joao Marques-Silva

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a widely used declarative programming paradigm that has shown great potential in solving complex computational problems. However, the inability to natively support non-integer arithmetic has been highlighted…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Francesco Pacenza , Jessica Zangari

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a prominent rule-based language for knowledge representation and reasoning with roots in logic programming and non-monotonic reasoning. The aim to capture the essence of removing (ir)relevant details in ASP…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Zeynep G. Saribatur , Stefan Woltran

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a well-established formalism for nonmonotonic reasoning. An ASP program can have no answer set due to cyclic default negation. In this case, it is not possible to draw any conclusion, even if this is not…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-07-24 Giovanni Amendola , Carmine Dodaro , Wolfgang Faber , Nicola Leone , Francesco Ricca

In recent years answer set programming has been extended to deal with multi-valued predicates. The resulting formalisms allows for the modeling of continuous problems as elegantly as ASP allows for the modeling of discrete problems, by…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2011-04-28 Jeroen Janssen , Steven Schockaert , Dirk Vermeir , Martine De Cock

Answer Set Programming Modulo Theories (ASPMT) is an approach to combining answer set programming and satisfiability modulo theories based on the functional stable model semantics. It is shown that the tight fragment of ASPMT programs can…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Michael Bartholomew , Joohyung Lee

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

Characterizing hybrid ASP solving in a generic way is difficult since one needs to abstract from specific theories. Inspired by lazy SMT solving, this is usually addressed by treating theory atoms as opaque. Unlike this, we propose a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Pedro Cabalar , Jorge Fandinno , Torsten Schaub , Philipp Wanko

The formalism of active integrity constraints was introduced as a way to specify particular classes of integrity constraints over relational databases together with preferences on how to repair existing inconsistencies. The rule-based…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Luís Cruz-Filipe