The main contribution of this paper is the definition of the preference description language ¡¢ . This language allows us to combine qualitative and quantitative, penalty bas...
We present a new approach to integrating Constraint Processing (CP) techniques into Answer Set Programming (ASP). Based on an alternative semantic approach, we develop an algorithm...
Recent research shows that SAT (propositional satisfiability) techniques can be employed to build efficient systems to compute answer sets for logic programs. ASSAT and CMODELS ar...
In this paper we show how CR-Prolog, a recent extension of A-Prolog, was used in the successor of USA-Advisor (USA-Smart) in order to improve the quality of the plans returned. The...
This chapter tackles the relation between declarative languages and multi-agent systems by following the dictates of the five Ws (and one H) that characterize investigations. The ...