Seminar Rule-Based Paradigms in KR

From International Center for Computational Logic

Seminar Rule-Based Paradigms in KR

Course with SWS 0/2/0 (lecture/exercise/practical) in WS 2021

Announcements

[2021-12-13] The Elevator-Pitch Session will be held virtually [2021-12-01] Optional Consultation will be held virtually

[2021-10-19] Please note that due to the implementation of the 3G-Rules in Teaching, you need to be informed about the Declaration-Questionnaire in OPAL. You can find the link to this site directly in our OPAL-Course.

[2021-10-06] Matrix-channel available

Contents

The field of knowledge representation and reasoning (KRR) addresses how to represent, manipulate, and generate knowledge by accommodating a plethora of various paradigms. One basic principle follows the rule-based approach. There knowledge as well as additionally inferable knowledge is represented by a set of rules. One rule is usually in the form of a simple implication (i.e. A -> B), which intuitively states that "If the premise holds, the conclusion shall hold too".

This Seminar will be focused on different rule-based paradigms which has been investigated, applied, and has been relevant in the recent decades. The main topics will be

  • Datalog
  • Answer Set Programming
  • Distributed rule-based reasoning formalisms

We offer a variety of topics, including conceptional and modelling aspects as well as analysis.

The goal of this course is to read, analyse, and understand a given scientific paper and prepare a report as well as a presentation of the topic. Therefore additional skills like basic literature search and the acquisition of knowledge on underlying concepts will be required and trained.


Schedule and Location

Wednesday, DS 5 (14:50 - 16:20). Please check "Dates and Materials" for further details and links to the virtual rooms. The introductory session will be online on Wednesday, October 13th.

Currently either a hybrid-mode or an on-site model is planned for this course and will be discussed at the Kickoff-Meeting on October 13th.

The optional consultations can be either in Room APB 3035 or APB 3027. I will be at Room 3027 at the start of the time-slot and will be at my office if no one shows up. On Wednesday, December, 1st the consultation will be held virtually. For further details please feel free to contact me.

Opportunities

Upon interest, we can provide seminar attendees with follow-up research-related tasks that may be later developed into master's or bachelor's theses, and/or publications.

Communication

Important Announcements will be communicated through our matrix-channel, so feel free to join the chat-channel.

Summary Paper & Slides

Please hand in your summary paper and slides by email to stefan.ellmauthaler@tu-dresden.de.

Contact

Please, feel free to send me an email or a message at matrix if you have any further questions.

Enrolment

Note that it is mandatory to enroll to this course at Opal. Please go to the Opal-Course-Site and follow up to the Enrolment-Page you will find there.

Interesting and general Papers

DB-Theory and Datalog as a query-language

  • Abiteboul, S.; Hull, R. & Vianu, V. Foundations of databases. Addison-Wesley Reading, 1995, 8

High-level overview Paper on Answer Set Programming

  • Brewka, G.; Eiter, T. & Truszczyʼnski, M. Answer set programming at a glance. Communications of the ACM, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2011, 54, 92-103

Dense and very in-depth Paper on Logic Programming

Recommendation: Hard to read from start to end, usually interesting to answer specific questions on one of the discussed topics

  • Dantsin, E.; Eiter, T.; Gottlob, G. & Voronkov, A. Complexity and expressive power of logic programming. Proceedings of Computational Complexity. Twelfth Annual IEEE Conference, IEEE Comput. Soc, 2001, 33, 374-425

Research Papers

Answer Set Programming

Datalog

Distributed Reasoning

Notes

 * TPLP and AIJ paper are journal paper, and therefore longer with a broader point of view
   * in this case challenging paper
   * challenge to compress the information to the length-restrictions
   * students literature research is mostly focused on newer results, position in the scientific comunity and "missing links"
   * summary paper - hints for journal paper
     * Introduction needs to justify and motivate the choice of results and the need then and nowadays
     * conclusion needs to sum up the results and their value from the students point of view
 * the other paper are conference paper
   * students literature research will be needed for preliminaries, newer work, and parallel/related work
   * challenge to reflect on the given information and present it with your own words
   * summary paper - hints for conference paper
     * introdcution needs to introduce the topic, position it within the field and reflect on historical and current need
     * conclusion needs to sum up the results and their value from the students point of view, a comparison with related work (if any).
The difficulty of specific papers can be discussed during session 3 if one is unsure about the selection!

Subscribe to events of this course (icalendar)

Seminar Kickoff Meeting DS5, October 13, 2021 in Video conference File
Seminar Topic overview DS5, October 20, 2021 in APB 3027 File
Seminar Topic Assignment, Organisational Matters DS5, October 27, 2021 in APB 3027 File 1 File 2
Consultation Consultation (optional) DS5, November 3, 2021 in APB 3027
Consultation Consultation (optional) DS5, November 8, 2021 in APB 3027
No session Public Holiday
No session No Consultation
Consultation Consultation (optional) DS5, December 1, 2021 in Virtual
No session No Consultation due to sick leave DS5, December 8, 2021 in APB 3027
Seminar Elevator Pitch DS5, December 15, 2021 in Video conference
Consultation Consultation (optional) DS5, January 5, 2022 in Video conference
Consultation Consultation (optional) - Reminder: Summary Paper Deadline DS5, January 12, 2022 in Video conference
No session No Consultation DS5, January 19, 2022 in None
Consultation Slide Feedback and Consultation DS5, January 26, 2022 in Video conference
Seminar Presentation (Seminar-Talk) DS5, February 2, 2022 in Video conference


Calendar