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EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE
IMPORTANT DATES (AoE)
Abstract submission deadline: 30 June 2025
Paper submission deadline: 30 June 2025
Notification: 20 July 2025
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CALL FOR PAPERS ASPOCP 2025
18th Workshop on Answer Set Programming and Other Computing Paradigms
September 12 - 13, 2025
Affiliated with ICLP 2025, 41th International Conference on Logic Programming
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AIMS AND SCOPE
Since its introduction in the late 1980s, Answer Set Programming (ASP) has been widely applied to
various knowledge-intensive tasks and combinatorial search problems. ASP was found to be
closely related to SAT, which led to a new method of computing answer sets using SAT solvers and
techniques adapted from SAT. This has been a much studied relationship, and is currently extended
towards satisfiability modulo theories (SMT). The relationship of ASP to other computing paradigms,
such as constraint satisfaction, quantified Boolean formulas (QBF), Constraint Logic Programming
(CLP), first-order logic (FOL), and FO(ID) is also the subject of active research. Consequently, new
methods of computing answer sets are being developed based on relationships to these formalisms.
The practical applications of ASP also foster work on multi-paradigm problem-solving,
and in particular language and solver integration. The most prominent examples in this area
currently are the integration of ASP with description logics (in the realm of the Semantic Web) and
constraint satisfaction (which recently led to the Constraint Answer Set Programming (CASP)
research direction). Furthermore, significant research effort is being devoted to
delivering ASP-based solutions to real-world problems and end-users. This includes the development
of visualization and explanation tools, which are becoming increasingly important for the
acceptance of ASP in practice.
A large body of general results regarding ASP is available and several efficient ASP solvers have
been implemented. However, there are still significant challenges in applying ASP to real life
applications, and more interest in relating ASP to other computing paradigms is emerging. This
workshop will provide opportunities for researchers to identify these challenges and to exchange
ideas for overcoming them.
TOPICS
Topics of interests include (but are not limited to):
- ASP and classical logic formalisms (SAT/FOL/QBF/SMT/DL).
- ASP and constraint programming.
- ASP and other logic programming paradigms, e.g., FO(ID).
- ASP and other nonmonotonic languages, e.g., action languages.
- ASP and external means of computation.
- ASP and probabilistic reasoning.
- ASP and knowledge compilation.
- ASP and machine learning.
- New methods of computing answer sets using algorithms or systems of
other paradigms.
- Language extensions to ASP.
- ASP and multi-agent systems.
- ASP and multi-context systems.
- Modularity and ASP.
- ASP and argumentation.
- Multi-paradigm problem solving involving ASP.
- Evaluation and comparison of ASP to other paradigms.
- ASP and related paradigms in applications.
- Debugging and visualization of ASP programs.
- Explanations for ASP or using ASP.
- Hybridizing ASP with procedural approaches.
- Enhanced grounding or beyond grounding.
SUBMISSIONS
The workshop invites two types of submissions:
- original papers describing original research.
- non-original paper already published on formal proceedings or journals.
Original papers must not exceed 13 pages (excluding references) and must be formatted using
the 1-column CEURART style available in the website.
Authors are requested to clearly specify whether their submission is original or not with a
footnote on the first page.
Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts in PDF via the EasyChair system at the
Answer Set Programming and Other Computing Paradigm".
IMPORTANT DATES (AoE)
Abstract submission deadline: 30 May 2025 30 June 2025
Paper submission deadline: 06 June 2025 30 June 2025
Notification: 04 July 2025 20 July 2025
WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
- Mario Alviano, University of Calabria
- Pedro Cabalar, University of Coruña
- Tran Cao, New Mexico State University
- Francesco Cauteruccio, University of Salerno
- Stefania Costantini, University of L'Aquila
- Carmine Dodaro, University of Calabria
- Esra Erdem, Sabanci University
- Cristina Feier, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
- Johannes K. Fichte, Linköping University
- Tobias Geibinger, Vienna University of Technology
- Giovambattista Ianni, University of Calabria
- Tomi Janhunen, Tampere University
- Vladimir Lifschitz, University of Texas
- Marco Maratea, University of Calabria
- Michael Morak, University of Klagenfurt
- Orkunt Sabuncu, Potassco Solutions Turkey
- Konstantin Schekotihin, University of Klagenfurt
- Van-Giang Trinh, Inria Saclay
- Jia-Huai You, University of Alberta
- Johannes P. Wallner, TU Graz