Navigating ASP Solution Spaces (Canceled)

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Navigating ASP Solution Spaces (Canceled)

Talk by Sarah Alice Gaggl
This talk has been canceled. There will be no seminar on Oct 17.

A wide range of combinatorial search problems can be modelled and solved with Answer Set Programming (ASP). While modern ASP solvers allow to quickly enumerate solutions, the user faces the problem of dealing with a possibly exponential number of solutions, which may easily go into millions and beyond. To still be able to reach an understanding of the answer set space, we propose navigation approaches to reach subspaces that fulfill desirable criteria. We start with an iterative approach to compute a diverse collection of answer sets that allows to exchange some answer sets to improve the size and diversity of the whole collection. Then, we propose an approach to collect representative answer sets that, in contrast to diverse collections, do not require to

specify a diversity measure. With weighted faceted answer set navigation we allow for a quantitative understanding of the answer set space. Weights can be assigned to atoms depending on how much they restrict the remaining solution space, either by counting the number of answer sets (resp. supported models) or counting the number of atoms still available to choose. Finally, we will present a visual approach to explore solution spaces and apply it to the domain of abstract argumentation.