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                         FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS    

                                 ASPOCP 2016    

     9th Workshop on Answer Set Programming and Other Computing Paradigms       

                    https://sites.google.com/site/aspocp2016                           

                   October 16 or 17, 2016 (preliminary dates)                          

    

    Affiliated with the 32nd International Conference on Logic Programming      

                              Now York City, USA                                       

                            October 17 - 21, 2016                                       

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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.                      

                                                    

 Furthermore, 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).           

                                                    

 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.