Program

September 5th

Workshops day

From 8:00 to 9:00 there wiil be workshops and conference welcome desk

September 6th

8:00 - 9:00 LPNMR 2022 Welcome Desk

09:00 - 09:30 LPNMR 2022 Opening

09:30 - 10:30 Systems (Chair: Mario Alviano)

  • clingraph: ASP-based Visualization [Slides]

    • Susana Hahn, Orkunt Sabuncu, Torsten Schaub and Tobias Stolzmann

  • Solving Problems in the Polynomial Hierarchy with ASP(Q) [Slides]

    • Giovanni Amendola, Bernardo Cuteri, Francesco Ricca and Mirek Truszczynski

  • QMaxSATpb: A Certified MaxSAT Solver [Slides]

    • Dieter Vandesande, Wolf De Wulf and Bart Bogaerts

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 - 12:00 Invited tutorial: Andreas Pieris - Termination of Reasoning with Datalog+/- Ontologies (Chair: Leonid Libkin)

12:00 - 12:45 ASP Applications I (Chair: Stefania Costantini)

  • Learning to Rank the Distinctiveness of Behaviour in Serial Offending [Slides]

    • Mark Law, Theophile Sautory, Ludovico Mitchener, Kari Davies, Matthew Tonkin, Jessica Woodhams and Dalal Alrajeh

  • Analysis of Cyclic Fault Propagation via ASP [Slides]

    • Marco Bozzano, Alessandro Cimatti, Alberto Griggio, Martin Jonáš and Greg Kimberly

12:45 - 14:30 Lunch

14:30 - 15:30 Invited talk: Sheila McIlraith - Reward Machines: Formal Languages and Automata for Reinforcement Learning (online) (Chair: Daniela Inclezan)

15:30 - 16:30 LP & ML (Chair: Stefano Bistarelli)

  • Deep learning for the generation of heuristics in answer set programming: a case study of graph coloring [Slides]

    • Carmine Dodaro, Davide Ilardi, Luca Oneto and Francesco Ricca

  • A Machine Learning System to Improve the Performance of ASP Solving Based on Encoding Selection [Slides]

    • Liu Liu, Miroslaw Truszczynski and Yuliya Lierler

  • DeduDeep: an Extensible Framework for Combining Deep Learning and ASP-based Models (Short) [Slides]

    • Pierangela Bruno, Francesco Calimeri and Cinzia Marte

  • A Comparative Study of Three Neural-Symbolic Approaches to Inductive Logic Programming (Short) [Slides]

    • Davide Beretta, Stefania Monica and Federico Bergenti

16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break

17:00 - 19:00 Doctoral Consortium (Chair: Martin Gebser)

  • 17:00 - 17:03: Opening

  • 17:04 - 17:16: Efficient Exploration of Solution Spaces Through Diverse Answer Sets

    • Elisa Böhl

  • 17:17 - 17:29: Automata Techniques for Temporal Answer Set Programming

    • Susana Hahn

  • 17:30 - 17:42: Tools and Methodologies for Verifying Answer Set Programs

    • Zach Hansen

  • 17:43 - 17:55: Learning domain-specific heuristics for ASP

    • Antonio Ielo

  • 17:56 - 18:08: Machine Learning: a data-driven booster to enhance planning, operation and design tools

    • Davide Ilardi

  • 18:09 - 18:21: An NLP-based approach for modeling in ASP

    • Irfan Kareem

  • 18:22 - 18:34: Compilation Techniques for ASP: from Aggregates to general programs

    • Giuseppe Mazzotta

  • 18:35 - 18:47: Navigating Solution Spaces over Logic Programs

    • Dominik Rusovac

  • 18:48 - 19:00: Knowledge Representation Methods for Bridging Machine Learning and Logical Reasoning

    • Akihiro Takemura

September 7th

8:30 - 9:00 LPNMR 2022 Welcome Desk

09:00 - 10:30 ASP Solving (Chair: Martin Gebser)

  • Efficient Computation of Answer Sets via SAT Modulo Acyclicity and Vertex Elimination [Slides]

    • Masood Feyzbakhsh Rankooh and Tomi Janhunen

  • IASCAR: Incremental Answer Set Counting by Anytime Refinement

    • Johannes Klaus Fichte, Sarah Alice Gaggl, Markus Hecher and Dominik Rusovac

  • Enumeration of minimal models and MUSes in WASP [Slides]

    • Mario Alviano, Carmine Dodaro, Salvatore Fiorentino, Alessandro Previti and Francesco Ricca

  • Tunas - Fishing for diverse Answer Sets: a Multi-Shot Trade up Strategy

    • Elisa Böhl and Sarah Alice Gaggl

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 - 12:00 Invited talk: Alessandra Russo - Logic-based Machine Learning: Recent Advances and their role in neuro-symbolic AI (online) (Chair: Thomas Eiter)

12:00 - 12:45 Temporal representation and reasoning (Chair: Concepcion Vidal)

  • Metric Temporal Answer Set Programming over Timed Traces [Slides]

    • Pedro Cabalar, Martín Diéguez, Torsten Schaub and Anna Schuhmann

  • A Qualitative Temporal Extension of Here-and-There Logic [Slides]

    • Thomas Eiter and Patrik Schneider

12:45 - 14:30 Lunch

14:30 - 15:30 Invited tutorial: Viviana Mascardi and Angelo Ferrando - Exploiting Logic Programming for Runtime Verification (Chair: Sarah Gaggl)

15:30 - 16:30 ASP Theory (Chair: Tomi Janhunen)

  • Syntactic ASP Forgetting with Forks [Slides]

    • Felicidad Aguado, Pedro Cabalar, Jorge Fandinno, David Pearce, Gilberto Pérez and Concepción Vidal

  • Semantics for Conditional Literals via the SM Operator [Slides]

    • Zachary Hansen and Yuliya Lierler

  • Arguing Correctness of ASP Programs with Aggregates [Slides]

    • Jorge Fandinno, Zachary Hansen and Yuliya Lierler

16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break

17:00 - 18:30 Epistemic, Probabilistic & Modal Logic (Chair: Wolfgang Faber)

  • State Transition in Multi-agent Epistemic Domains using Answer Set Programming [Slides]

    • Yusuf Izmirlioglu, Loc Pham, Tran Cao Son and Enrico Pontelli

  • Epistemic Logic Programs: a study of some properties [Slides]

    • Stefania Costantini and Andrea Formisano

  • Statistical Statements in Probabilistic Logic Programming [Slides]

    • Damiano Azzolini, Elena Bellodi and Fabrizio Riguzzi

  • Modal Logic S5 in Answer Set Programming with Lazy Creation of Worlds [Slides]

    • Mario Alviano, Sotiris Batsakis and George Baryannis

September 8th

09:00 - 10:30 Argumentation (Chair: Stefan Woltran)

  • Interlinking Logic Programs and Argumentation Frameworks [Slides]

    • Chiaki Sakama and Tran Cao Son

  • Computing Smallest MUSes of Quantified Boolean Formulas [Slides]

    • Andreas Niskanen, Jere Mustonen, Jeremias Berg and Matti Järvisalo

  • Representing Abstract Dialectical Frameworks with Binary Decision Diagrams

    • Stefan Ellmauthaler, Sarah Alice Gaggl, Dominik Rusovac and Johannes P. Wallner

  • A Definition of Sceptical Semantics in the Constellations Approach [Slides]

    • Stefano Bistarelli and Francesco Santini

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 - 12:00 Invited tutorial: Stefania Costantini - Answer Set Programming in the COST Action DigForASP: human rights and the problem of noise (Chair: Torsten Schaub)

12:00 - 12:45 ASP Applications II (Chair: Alice Tarzariol)

  • ASP for Flexible Payroll Management [Slides]

    • Benjamin Callewaert and Joost Vennekens

  • Optimising Business Process Discovery using Answer Set Programming (Short) [Slides]

    • Federico Chesani, Chiara Di Francescomarino, Chiara Ghidini, Giulia Grundler, Daniela Loreti, Fabrizio Maria Maggi, Paola Mello, Marco Montali and Sergio Tessaris

  • Pinpointing Axioms in Ontologies via ASP (Short) [Slides]

    • Rafael Peñaloza and Francesco Ricca

12:45 - 14:30 Lunch

14:30 - 15:30 Invited talk: Nicola Leone [ALP sponsored talk] - DLV evolution from Datalog to ontology and stream reasoning (Chair: Georg Gottlob)

15:30 - 16:30 NMR I (Chair: Francesco Ricca)

  • SHACL: A Description Logic in Disguise [Slides]

    • Bart Bogaerts, Maxime Jakubowski and Jan Van den Bussche

  • Towards Provenance in Heterogeneous Knowledge Bases [Slides]

    • Matthias Knorr, Carlos Viegas Damásio, Ricardo Gonçalves and João Leite

  • A Practical Account into Counting Dung's Extensions by Dynamic Programming [Slides]

    • Ridhwan Dewoprabowo, Johannes K. Fichte, Piotr Jerzy Gorczyca and Markus Hecher

16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break

17:00 - 20:00 Free Time / Walk in the Park of Nervi

20:30 Dinner at Bagni Medusa

September 9th

09:00 - 10:00 Invited talk: Stefan Woltran [Potassco sponsored talk] - Abstract Argumentation with Focus on Argument Claims -- An Overview (Chair: Marco Maratea)

10:00 - 10:30 Explainability (Chair: Chiaki Sakama)

  • Inference to the Stable Explanations [Slides]

    • Guido Governatori, Francesco Olivieri, Antonino Rotolo and Matteo Cristani

  • xASP: An Explanation Generation System for Answer Set Programming (Short) [Slides]

    • Ly Ly Trieu, Tran Cao Son and Marcello Balduccini

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 - 12:45 NMR II (Chair: Cristina Sirangelo)

  • Knowledge-Based Support for Adhesive Selection [Slides]

    • Simon Vandevelde, Jeroen Jordens, Bart Van Doninck, Maarten Witters and Joost Vennekens

  • Gradient-Based Supported Model Computation in Vector Spaces [Slides]

    • Akihiro Takemura and Katsumi Inoue

  • Towards Causality-Based Conflict Resolution in Answer Set Programs [Slides]

    • Andre Thevapalan, Konstantin Haupt and Gabriele Kern-Isberner

  • Emotional Reasoning in an Action Language for Emotion-Aware Planning [Slides]

    • Andreas Brännström and Juan Carlos Nieves

  • Reasoning about actions with EL ontologies and temporal answer sets for DLTL [Slides]

    • Laura Giordano, Alberto Martelli and Daniele Theseider Dupré

12:45 - 13:00 LPNMR 2022 Closing

13:00 - 14:45 Lunch