ASPOCP 2012 - 5th Workshop on Answer Set Programming and Other Computing Paradigms

ASPOCP 2012
5th Workshop on Answer Set Programming and Other Computing Paradigms
http://sites.google.com/site/aspocp12
September 4th, 2012
Collocated with the International Conference on Logic Programming 2012
Budapest, Hungary
September 4-8, 2012

AIMS AND SCOPE
Since its introduction in the late 1980s, answer set programming (ASP)
has been widely applied to various knowledge-intensive tasks and
combinatorial search problems. ASP was found to be closely related to
SAT, which has led to a new method of computing answer sets using SAT
solvers and techniques adapted from SAT. While this has been the most
studied relationship which is currently extended towards
satisfiability modulo theories (SMT), the relationship of ASP to other
computing paradigms, such as constraint satisfaction, quantified
boolean formulas (QBF), first-order logic (FOL), or FO(ID) logic is
also the subject of active research. New methods of computing answer
sets are being developed based on the relation between ASP and other
paradigms, such as the use of pseudo-Boolean solvers, QBF solvers, FOL
theorem provers, and CLP systems.
Furthermore, the practical applications of ASP also foster work on
multi-paradigm problem-solving, and in particular language and solver
integration. The most prominent examples in this area currently are the
integration of ASP with description logics (in the realm of the
Semantic Web) and constraint satisfaction. This workshop will
facilitate the discussion about crossing the boundaries of current ASP
techniques in theory, solving, and applications , in combination with
or inspired by other computing paradigms.
TOPICS
Topics of interests include (but are not limited to):
- ASP and classical logic formalisms (SAT/FOL/QBF/SMT/DL).
- ASP and constraint programming.
- ASP and other logic programming paradigms, e.g., FO(ID).
- ASP and other nonmonotonic languages, e.g., action languages.
- ASP and probabilistic reasoning.
- ASP and machine learning.
- New methods of computing answer sets using algorithms or systems of
other paradigms.
- Language extensions to ASP.
- ASP and multi-agent systems.
- ASP and multi-context systems.
- Modularity and ASP.
- ASP and argumentation.
- Multi-paradigm problem solving involving ASP.
- Evaluation and comparison of ASP to other paradigms.
- ASP and related paradigms in applications.
- Hybridizing ASP with procedural approaches.
- Enhanced grounding or beyond grounding.
SUBMISSIONS
Papers must describe original research and should not exceed 15 pages
in the Springer LNCS format (URL:http://www.springeronline.com/lncs/).
Paper submission will be handled electronically by means of the
Easychair system. The submission page is available at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aspocp1...
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: June 19, 2012
Notification: July 19, 2012
Camera-ready articles due: July 29, 2012
Workshop: September 4, 2012
PROCEEDINGS
The workshop contributions will be published electronically, using
the Computing Research Repository (CoRR).
LOCATION
The workshop will be held in Budapest, Hungary, collocated with
the International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP) 2012.
WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS
Michael Fink, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Yuliya Lierler, University of Kentucky, USA
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Marcello Balduccini, Kodak Research Labs, USA
Gerhard Brewka, University of Leipzig, Germany
Pedro Cabalar, Corunna University, Spain
Sandeep Chintabathina, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, USA
Wolfgang Faber, University of Calabria, Italy
Martin Gebser, University of Potsdam, Germany
Giovambattista Ianni, University of Calabria, Italy
Joohyung Lee, Arizona State University, USA
Joao Leite, New University of Lisbon, Portugal,
Vladimir Lifschitz, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Marco Maratea, University of Genoa, Italy
Alessandro Mosca, Free University of Bolzano, Italy
Emilia Oikarinen, Aalto University, Finland
David Pearce, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Axel Polleres, Siemens AG Corporate Technology, Austria
Peter Schueller, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Guillermo R. Simari, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina
Tran Cao Son, New Mexico State University, USA
Miroslaw Truszczynski, University of Kentucky, USA
Joost Vennekens, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
Stefan Woltran, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Fangkai Yang, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Jia-Huai You, University of Alberta, Canada