Call for Papers

New submission deadline: 25 September 2008

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AIMS AND SCOPE

Since its introduction in the 1990s, 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 has led to a new method of computing answer sets using SAT solvers and techniques adapted from SAT. While this has been the most studied relationship, the relationship of ASP to other computing paradigms, such as constraint satisfaction, quantified boolean formulas (QBF), or first-order logic (FOL) is also the subject of active research. New methods of computing answer sets are being developed based on the relation between ASP and other paradigms, such as the use of pseudo-Boolean solvers, QBF solvers, and FOL theorem provers. Furthermore, the practical application of ASP also fosters 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. This workshop will facilitate the discussion about crossing the boundaries of current ASP techniques, in combination with or inspired by other computing paradigms.

TOPICS

Topics of interests include (but are not limited to):

  • Relating ASP to classical logic formalisms (SAT/FOL/QBF/SMT/DL).

  • Relating ASP to constraint programming.

  • Relating ASP to other logic programming paradigms.

  • Relating ASP to other nonmonotonic languages.

  • New methods of computing answer sets using algorithms or systems of

  • ASP and probabilistic reasoning.

  • ASP and machine learning.

  • Language extensions to ASP.

  • ASP and multi-agent systems.

  • Multi-paradigm problem solving involving ASP.

  • Evaluation and comparison of ASP to other paradigms.

  • Embedding ASP for challenging applications.

  • Hybridizing ASP with procedural approaches.

  • Enhanced grounding / beyond grounding.

SUBMISSIONS

Papers must describe original research and should not exceed 15 pages in the Springer LNCS format http://www.springeronline.com/lncs/.

Paper submission will be handled electronically by means of the Easychair system. The submission page is available at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aspocp08.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Deadline: September 25, 2008
Notification: October 20, 2008
Camera-ready articles due: November 10, 2008
Workshop: December 9-13, 2008 (exact day to be determined)

PROCEEDINGS

The workshop contributions will be published electronically, using the Computing Research Repository (CoRR). Informal printed proceedings will be provided at the workshop. It is planned to publish significantly extended versions of selected contributions as post-proceedings, preferably as a special edition of a journal. The post-proceeding articles will be subject to a further peer-reviewing round.

LOCATION

The workshop will be held in Udine, Italy, collocated with the International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP) 2008.

WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS

Wolfgang Faber, University of Calabria, Italy
Joohyung Lee, Arizona State University, USA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Chitta Baral, Arizona State University, USA
Gerhard Brewka, University of Leipzig, Germany
Pedro Cabalar, University of A Coruña, Spain
Marc Denecker, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Nicola Leone, University of Calabria, Italy
Vladimir Lifschitz, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Fangzhen Lin, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
Thomas Lukasiewicz, University of Oxford, UK
Ilkka Niemelä, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Mirosław Truszczyński, University of Kentucky, USA
Dirk Vermeir, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Stefan Woltran, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Yan Zhang, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Yuanlin Zhang, Texas Tech University, USA