Manifold Answer-Set Programs for Meta-reasoning

Abstract. In answer-set programming (ASP), the main focus usually is on computing answer sets which correspond to solutions to the problem represented by a logic program. Simple reasoning over answer sets is sometimes supported by ASP systems (usually in the form of computing brave or cautious consequences), but slightly more involved reasoning problems require external postprocessing. Generally speaking, it is often desirable to use (a subset of) brave or cautious consequences of a program P1 as input to another program P2 in order to provide the desired solutions to the problem to be solved. In practice, the evaluation of the program P1 currently has to be decoupled from the evaluation of P2 using an intermediate step which collects the desired consequences of P1 and provides them as input to P2. In this work, we present a novel method for representing such a procedure within a single program, and thus within the realm of ASP itself. Our technique relies on rewriting P1 into a so-cal...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: LPNMR
• Authors: Wolfgang Faber, Stefan Woltran
• Keywords: Answer Set, Cautious Consequences, LPNMR 2009, Program P1