Finite Groundings for ASP with Functions: A Journey through Consistency (Extended Abstract)

Lukas GerlachLukas Gerlach, David CarralDavid Carral, Markus HecherMarkus Hecher

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Lukas Gerlach, David Carral, Markus Hecher
Finite Groundings for ASP with Functions: A Journey through Consistency (Extended Abstract)
In Nina Gierasimczuk, Jesse Heyninck, eds., Proceedings of the 22nd International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning, to appear

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KurzfassungAbstract
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 symbols makes basic reasoning problems highly undecidable. However, even in simple cases, state of the art reasoners, specifically those relying on a ground-and-solve approach, fail to produce a result. Therefore, we reconsider consistency as a basic reasoning problem for ASP. We show reductions that give an intuition for the high level of undecidability. These insights allow for a more fine-grained analysis where we characterize ASP programs as “frugal” and “non-proliferous”. For such programs, we are not only able to semi-decide consistency but we also propose a grounding procedure that yields finite groundings on more ASP programs with the concept of “forbidden” facts.
Bemerkung: Note: Extended Abstract of https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2024/375
Projekt:Project: Cfaed, CPEC, SECAI, ScaDS.AI
Forschungsgruppe:Research Group: Wissensbasierte SystemeKnowledge-Based Systems

@inproceedings{GCH2024,
  author    = {Lukas Gerlach and David Carral and Markus Hecher},
  title     = {Finite Groundings for {ASP} with Functions: A Journey through
               Consistency (Extended Abstract)},
  editor    = {Nina Gierasimczuk and Jesse Heyninck},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 22nd International Workshop on Non-Monotonic
               Reasoning},
  year      = {2024},
  month     = {November}
}