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Reasoning about actions with Temporal Answer Sets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2012

LAURA GIORDANO ,
ALBERTO MARTELLI  and
DANIELE THESEIDER DUPRÉ
LAURA GIORDANO
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Informatica, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy (e-mail: laura@mfn.unipmn.it)
ALBERTO MARTELLI
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Torino, Italy (e-mail: mrt@di.unito.it)
DANIELE THESEIDER DUPRÉ
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Informatica, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy (e-mail: dtd@mfn.unipmn.it)
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Abstract

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In this paper, we combine Answer Set Programming (ASP) with Dynamic Linear Time Temporal Logic (DLTL) to define a temporal logic programming language for reasoning about complex actions and infinite computations. DLTL extends propositional temporal logic of linear time with regular programs of propositional dynamic logic, which are used for indexing temporal modalities. The action language allows general DLTL formulas to be included in domain descriptions to constrain the space of possible extensions. We introduce a notion of Temporal Answer Set for domain descriptions, based on the usual notion of Answer Set. Also, we provide a translation of domain descriptions into standard ASP and use Bounded Model Checking (BMC) techniques for the verification of DLTL constraints.

Keywords

Answer Set ProgrammingTemporal LogicBounded Model Checking

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Regular Papers
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Theory and Practice of Logic Programming , Volume 13 , Issue 2: 25th Annual GULP Conference , March 2013 , pp. 201 - 225
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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