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Better Paracoherent Answer Sets with Less Resources

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 September 2019

GIOVANNI AMENDOLAOpen the ORCID record for GIOVANNI AMENDOLA[Opens in a new window],
CARMINE DODAROOpen the ORCID record for CARMINE DODARO[Opens in a new window] and
FRANCESCO RICCAOpen the ORCID record for FRANCESCO RICCA[Opens in a new window]
GIOVANNI AMENDOLA
Affiliation:
University of Calabria, Rende, Italy (e-mails: amendola@mat.unical.it, dodaro@mat.unical.it, ricca@mat.unical.it)
CARMINE DODARO
Affiliation:
University of Calabria, Rende, Italy (e-mails: amendola@mat.unical.it, dodaro@mat.unical.it, ricca@mat.unical.it)
FRANCESCO RICCA
Affiliation:
University of Calabria, Rende, Italy (e-mails: amendola@mat.unical.it, dodaro@mat.unical.it, ricca@mat.unical.it)
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Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a well-established formalism for logic programming. Problem solving in ASP requires to write an ASP program whose answers sets correspond to solutions. Albeit the non-existence of answer sets for some ASP programs can be considered as a modeling feature, it turns out to be a weakness in many other cases, and especially for query answering. Paracoherent answer set semantics extend the classical semantics of ASP to draw meaningful conclusions also from incoherent programs, with the result of increasing the range of applications of ASP. State of the art implementations of paracoherent ASP adopt the semi-equilibrium semantics, but cannot be lifted straightforwardly to compute efficiently the (better) split semi-equilibrium semantics that discards undesirable semi-equilibrium models. In this paper an efficient evaluation technique for computing a split semi-equilibrium model is presented. An experiment on hard benchmarks shows that better paracoherent answer sets can be computed consuming less computational resources than existing methods.

Keywords

Answer Set ProgrammingParacoherent reasoningSemi-equilibrium models

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Original Article
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Theory and Practice of Logic Programming , Volume 19 , Special Issue 5-6: 35th International Conference on Logic Programming , September 2019, pp. 757 - 772
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© Cambridge University Press 2019 

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