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Grassroots platforms are distributed systems with multiple instances that can (1) operate independently of each other and of any global resource other than the network, and (2) coalesce into ever larger instances, possibly resulting in a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Ehud Shapiro

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

Answer Set Programming (ASP), a well-known declarative logic programming paradigm, has recently found practical application in Process Mining. In particular, ASP has been used to model tasks involving declarative specifications of business…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Francesco Chiariello , Valeria Fionda , Antonio Ielo , Francesco Ricca

The Game Description Language (GDL) is a widely used formalism for specifying general games. Due to their similar syntax and semantics, Answer Set Programming (ASP) and its extensions have been applied to single- and two-player…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Yifan He , Michael Thielscher

The paper presents an enhancement of xASP, a system that generates explanation graphs for Answer Set Programming (ASP). Different from xASP, the new system, xASP2, supports different clingo constructs like the choice rules, the constraints,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Mario Alviano , Ly Ly Trieu , Tran Cao Son , Marcello Balduccini

Answer set programming is a leading declarative constraint programming paradigm with wide use for complex knowledge-intensive applications. Modern answer set programming languages support many equivalent ways to model constraints and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Michael Dingess , Miroslaw Truszczynski

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

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

Grassroots Logic Programs (GLP) is a concurrent logic programming language in which logic variables are partitioned into paired readers and writers. An assignment is produced at most once via a writer and consumed at most once via its…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Ehud Shapiro

In this paper, we explore the concept of modularity in first-order answer set programming (ASP). We introduce a new formalism called parametric modular logic programs, which allows defining subprograms with parameters and intensionality…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Jorge Fandinno , Yuliya Lierler , Torsten Schaub

Constraint answer set programming or CASP, for short, is a hybrid approach in automated reasoning putting together the advances of distinct research areas such as answer set programming, constraint processing, and satisfiability modulo…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Yuliya Lierler

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

We find ourselves in the midst of an explosion in artificial intelligence research, particularly with large language models (LLMs). These models have diverse applications spanning finance, commonsense knowledge graphs, medicine, and visual…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Gang Xu , Airong Wang , Yushan Pan

Epistemic Logic Programs (ELPs), that is, Answer Set Programming (ASP) extended with epistemic operators, have received renewed interest in recent years, which led to a flurry of new research, as well as efficient solvers. An important…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Wolfgang Faber , Michael Morak , Stefan Woltran

Logic programs with ordered disjunction (LPODs) combine ideas underlying Qualitative Choice Logic (Brewka et al. KR 2002) and answer set programming. Logic programming under answer set semantics is extended with a new connective called…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Gerhard Brewka

Hybrid Answer Set Programming (Hybrid ASP) is an extension of Answer Set Programming (ASP) that allows ASP-like rules to interact with outside sources. The Splitting Set Theorem is an important and extensively used result for ASP. The paper…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Alex Brik

Higher-order constructs extend the expressiveness of first-order (Constraint) Logic Programming ((C)LP) both syntactically and semantically. At the same time assertions have been in use for some time in (C)LP systems helping programmers…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2014-06-03 Nataliia Stulova , José F. Morales , Manuel V. Hermenegildo

Constraint Logic Programming (CLP) is a logic programming formalism used to solve problems requiring the consideration of constraints, like resource allocation and automated planning and scheduling. It has previously been extended in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Jeroen Spaans , Jesse Heyninck

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

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