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Speeding up Lazy-Grounding Answer Set Solving

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Richard Taupe
  • Alpen-Adria-Universität, Klagenfurt, Austria, Siemens AG Österreich, Vienna, Austria

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This work was partially conducted within the scope of DynaCon (FFG-PNr.: 861263), which is funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology (BMVIT) under the program "ICT of the Future" between November 2017 and April 2020. More information: https://iktderzukunft.at/en/

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Richard Taupe. Speeding up Lazy-Grounding Answer Set Solving. In Technical Communications of the 34th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2018). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 64, pp. 20:1-20:9, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018)
https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.ICLP.2018.20

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The grounding bottleneck is an important open issue in Answer Set Programming. Lazy grounding addresses it by interleaving grounding and search. The performance of current lazy-grounding solvers is not yet comparable to that of ground-and-solve systems, however. The aim of this thesis is to extend prior work on lazy grounding by novel heuristics and other techniques like non-ground conflict learning in order to speed up solving. Parts of expected results will be beneficial for ground-and-solve systems as well.

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  • Computing methodologies → Logic programming and answer set programming
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  • answer set programming
  • lazy grounding
  • heuristics

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