The 36th International Conference on Logic Programming

Conference Program

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Overview

Detailed Program

18 September

19 September

20 September

  • 14:00 - 14:30. Opening

  • 14:30 - 15:30. Invited talk (Sponsored by EurAI) - Chair: Stefania Costantini

    • Francesca Rossi: When Is It Morally Acceptable to Break the Rules? A Preference-Based Approach

  • 15:30 - 16:15. John Alan Robinson 20 year test of time award - Chair: Mirek Truszczynski

    • Marc Denecker: Extending Classical Logic with Inductive Definitions.

  • 16:15 - 16:30. Break

  • 16:30 - 18:00. Theory - Chair: Jorge Fandinno

    • Alex Brik: Splitting a Hybrid ASP Program

    • George Baryannis, Ilias Tachmazidis, Sotiris Batsakis, Grigoris Antoniou, Mario Alviano and Emmanuel Papadakis: A Generalised Approach for Encoding and Reasoning with Qualitative Theories in Answer Set Programming

    • Paul Tarau and Valeria de Paiva: Deriving Theorems in Implicational Linear Logic, Declaratively

    • Pedro Cabalar, Jorge Fandinno and Yuliya Lierler: Modular Answer Set Programming as a Formal Specification Language

    • Tobias Geibinger and Hans Tompits: Sequent-Type Calculi for Systems of Nonmonotonic Paraconsistent Logics

  • 18:00 - 18:15. Break

  • 18:15 - 19:45. Argumentation & Justification - Chair: Manuel Carro

    • Ridhwan Dewoprabowo and Ari Saptawijaya: Tabling Optimization for Contextual Abduction

    • Joaquin Arias, Manuel Carro, Zhuo Chen and Gopal Gupta: Justifications for Goal-Directed Constraint Answer Set Programming

    • Roberta Calegari and Giovanni Sartor: Burden of Persuasion in Argumentation

    • Simon Marynissen, Bart Bogaerts and Marc Denecker: Exploiting Game Theory for Analysing Justifications

21 September

  • 14:30 - 15:30. Invited talk - Chair: Giovambattista Ianni

    • Esra Erdem: Applications of Answer Set Programming where Theory meets Practice

  • 15:30 - 16:15. The Alain Colmerauer 10 year test of time award - Chair: Manuel Hermenegildo

    • Johannes Oetsch, Jörg Pührer, Hans Tompits: Catching the Ouroboros: On debugging non-ground answer-set programs.

  • 16:15 - 16:30. Break

  • 16:30 - 18:00. Applications - Chair: Alexander Artikis

    • Yuri Gil Dantas, Antoaneta Kondeva and Vivek Nigam: Less Manual Work for Safety Engineers: Towards an Automated Safety Reasoning with Safety Patterns (Application Paper)

    • Stefania Costantini and Lorenzo De Lauretis: An application of Answer Set Programming in Distributed Architectures: ASP Microservices

    • Kinjal Basu, Sarat Chandra Varanasi, Farhad Shakerin and Gopal Gupta: SQuARE: Semantics-based Question Answering and Reasoning Engine

    • Esra Erdem and Andreas Herzig: Solving Gossip Problems using Answer Set Programming: An Epistemic Planning Approach

    • Basem Atiq, Volkan Patoglu and Esra Erdem: Dynamic Multi-Agent Path Finding based on Conflict Resolution using Answer Set Programming

  • 18:00 - 18:15. Break

  • 18:15 - 19:45. Applications & Challenges in Logic Programming - Chair: Francesco Ricca

    • Esra Erdem, Müge Fidan, David Manlove and Patrick Prosser: A General Framework for Stable Roommates Problems using Answer Set Programming

    • Yusuf Izmirlioglu and Esra Erdem: Reasoning about Cardinal Directions between 3-Dimensional Extended Objects using Answer Set Programming

    • Roberta Costabile, Gelsomina Catalano, Bernardo Cuteri, Maria Concetta Morelli, Nicola Leone and Marco Manna: A logic-based decision support system for the diagnosis of headache disorders according to the ICHD-3 international classification

    • Botros N. Hanna, Ly Ly Thi Trieu, Tran Cao Son and Nam T. Dinh: An Application of ASP in Nuclear Engineering: Explaining the Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident Scenario

    • Walter Wilson: Proof, Implementation, and CAD-Application Challenges of Axiomatic Language

    • Nour Jnoub and Wolfgang Klas: An ASP-Based Approach for Fake Reviews Detection


22 September

  • 14:30 - 15:30. Invited talk - Chair: George Baryannis

    • Joao Marques-Silva: Formal Reasoning Methods for Explainability in Machine Learning

  • 15:30 - 16:15. Best Technical Paper - Chair: Paul Fodor

    • Gianvincenzo Alfano, Sergio Greco, Francesco Parisi and Irina Trubitsyna: On the Semantics of Abstract Argumentation Frameworks: A Logic Programming Approach

  • 16:15 - 16:30. Break

  • 16:30 - 18:00. Implementations & Transformations - Chair: Martin Gebser

    • Wolf De Wulf and Bart Bogaerts: LP2PB: Translating Answer Set Programs into Pseudo-Boolean Theories

    • Michael Dingess and Mirek Truszczynski: Automated Aggregator - Rewriting with the Counting Aggregate

    • Jorge Fandinno, Vladimir Lifschitz, Patrick Lühne and Torsten Schaub: Verifying Tight Logic Programs with anthem and Vampire

    • Giovambattista Ianni, Francesco Pacenza and Jessica Zangari: Incremental maintenance of overgrounded logic programs with tailored simplifications

    • Laura Giordano and Daniele Theseider Dupre': An ASP approach for reasoning in a concept-aware multipreferential lightweight DL

  • 18:00 - 18:15. Break

  • 18:15 - 19:45. Planning & Constraints - Chair: Agostino Dovier

    • Alessandro Burigana, Francesco Fabiano, Agostino Dovier and Enrico Pontelli: Modelling Multi-Agent Epistemic Planning in ASP

    • Pierre Talbot, Eric Monfroy and Charlotte Truchet: Modular Constraint Solver Cooperation via Abstract Interpretation

    • Richard Taupe, Antonius Weinzierl and Gerhard Friedrich: Conflict Generalisation in ASP: Learning Correct and Effective Non-Ground Constraints

    • Thomas Eiter and Rafael Kiesel: ASP(AC): Answer Set Programming with Algebraic Constraints

    • Fred Mesnard, Etienne Payet and German Vidal: Concolic Testing in CLP

23 September

  • 14:30 - 15:30. Invited talk - Chair: Fabrizio Riguzzi

    • Luc de Raedt: From Probabilistic Logics to Neuro-Symbolic Artificial Intelligence

  • 15:30 - 16:15. Best Student Paper - Chair: Bart Bogaerts

    • Pedro Cabalar, Jorge Fandinno, Javier Garea, Javier Romero and Torsten Schaub: eclingo: a Solver for Epistemic Logic Programs

  • 16:15 - 16:30. Break

  • 16:30 - 18:00. Logic Programming & Machine Learning - Chair: Alessandra Russo

    • Stefano Forti and Antonio Brogi: Continuous Reasoning for Managing Next-Gen Distributed Applications

    • Marc Roig Vilamala, Harrison Taylor, Tianwei Xing, Luis Garcia, Mani Srivastava, Lance Kaplan, Alun Preece, Angelika Kimming and Federico Cerutti: DeepProbCEP: A Hybrid Neuro-Symbolic Approach for Complex Event Processing in Noisy and Adversarial Settings

    • Elena Bellodi, Marco Alberti, Fabrizio Riguzzi and Riccardo Zese: MAP Inference for Probabilistic Logic Programming

    • Carmine Dodaro, Thomas Eiter, Paul Ogris and Konstantin Schekotihin: Managing caching strategies for stream reasoning with reinforcement learning

    • Loc Pham, Enrico Pontelli, Fabio Tardivo and Tran Cao Son: A Logic Programming Approach to Regression Based Repair of Incorrect Beliefs

    • Farhad Shakerin and Gopal Gupta: White-box Induction From SVM Models

  • 18:00 - 18:15. Break

  • 18:15 - 19:45. Systems and Best DC Paper - Chair: Simona Perri

    • Pedro Cabalar, Brais Muñiz Castro and Jorge Fandinno: A System for Explainable Answer Set Programming

    • Antonius Weinzierl, Richard Taupe and Gerhard Friedrich: Advancing Lazy-Grounding ASP Solving Techniques -- Restarts, Phase Saving, Heuristics, and More

    • Aaron Bembenek, Michael Ballantyne, Michael Greenberg and Nada Amin: Datalog-Based Systems Can Use Incremental SMT Solving (Extended Abstract)

    • Mario Alviano and Carmine Dodaro: Data validation for Answer Set Programming (extended abstract)

    • Damian Aparicio, Santiago Escobar and Julia Sapiña: Variant-based Equational Unification under Constructor Symbols

    • Zhun Yang: Extending Answer Set Programs with Neural Networks (Best DC paper)

24 September

  • 14:30 - 15:30. Invited talk (Women in Logic Programming talk) - Chair: Alessandra Mileo

    • Marina de Vos: Norms, Policy and Laws: Modelling, Compliance and Violation

  • 15:30 - 16:15. Best Application Paper - Chair: Vladimir Lifschitz

    • Momina Rizwan, Volkan Patoglu and Esra Erdem: Human Robot Collaborative Assembly Planning: An Answer Set Programming Approach

  • 16:15 - 16:30. Break

  • 16:30 - 18:00. Women in Logic Programming - Chair: Francesca A. Lisi

    • Viviana Mascardi and Domenico Pellegrini: Logical Judges Challenge Human Judges on the Strange Case of B.C.-Valjean

    • Ekaterina Komendantskaya, Henning Basold and Dmitri Rozplokhas: The New Normal: We Cannot Eliminate the Cuts, but We Can Explore Them

    • Alessio Fiorentino, Jessica Zangari and Marco Manna: DaRLing: A Datalog rewriter for OWL 2 RL ontological reasoning under SPARQL queries

    • Aysu Bogatarkan and Esra Erdem: Explanation Generation for Multi-Modal Multi-Agent Path Finding with Optimal Resource Utilization using Answer Set Programming

    • Damiano Azzolini, Elena Bellodi, Alessandro Brancaleoni, Fabrizio Riguzzi and Evelina Lamma: Modeling Bitcoin Lightning Network by Logic Programming

    • Elena Mastria, Jessica Zangari, Simona Perri and Francesco Calimeri: A Machine Learning guided Rewriting Approach for ASP Logic Programs

  • 18:00 - 18:15. Break

  • 18:15 - 19:45. Semantics - Chair: Thomas Eiter

    • Carlo Zaniolo, Ariyam Das, Youfu Li, Mingda Li and Jin Wang: Cardinality-Based Semantics and Scalability for Datalog with Aggregates

    • Tuan Nguyen, Katsumi Inoue and Chiaki Sakama: Enhancing Linear Algebraic Computation of Logic Programs Using Sparse Representation

    • Pedro Cabalar, Martín Diéguez, Torsten Schaub and Anna Schuhmann: Towards Metric Temporal Answer Set Programming

    • Francesco Dagnino, Davide Ancona and Elena Zucca: Flexible coinductive logic programming

    • Yanhong Annie Liu and Scott D. Stoller: Recursive Rules with Aggregation: A Simple Unified Semantics

25 September

  • 14:30 - 15:30. Panel on Machine Ethics

    • Chairs: Stefania Costantini and Francesca Alessandra Lisi

    • Speakers: Stefania Costantini, Esra Erdem, Luis Pereira, Francesca Rossi and Giovanni Sartor

  • 15:30 - 16:15. John Alan Robinson 20 year test of time award - Chair: Mirek Truszczynski

    • Marc Denecker: Extending Classical Logic with Inductive Definitions.

  • 16:30 - 18:00. ALP Meeting - https://bit.ly/2FQbqpd

  • 18:15 - 19:45. Sister Conferences & Journals - Chair: Marco Maratea

    • Andrea Galassi, Kristian Kersting, Marco Lippi, Xiaoting Shao and Paolo Torroni: Neural-Symbolic Argumentation Mining: An Argument in Favor of Deep Learning and Reasoning

    • Tamás Szabó, Gábor Bergmann, Sebastian Erdweg and Markus Voelter: Report: Datalog with Recursive Aggregation for Incremental Program Analyses

    • Marco Gavanelli, Marco Alberti and Evelina Lamma: Summary: Accountable Protocols in Abductive Logic Programming

    • Zhun Yang, Adam Ishay and Joohyung Lee: Report on NeurASP: A Simple Extension of Answer Set Programs To Embrace Neural Networks

    • Matthias Nickles: Sampling-Based SAT/ASP Multi-Model Optimization as a Framework for Probabilistic Inference

    • Yanhong Liu and Scott Stoller: Knowledge of Uncertain Worlds: Programming with Logical Constraints: An Overview

  • Closing