ASPOCP 2024 @ ICLP- First Call for Paper

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                                   CALL FOR PAPERS                                  
                                     ASPOCP 2024                                   
        17th Workshop on Answer Set Programming and Other Computing Paradigms      
                   https://sites.google.com/unical.it/aspocp2024/                 
                               October 12 or October 13                               


      Affiliated with ICLP 2024, 40th International Conference on Logic Programming
                            https://www.iclp24.utdallas.edu/                     
                                  October 11 - 17, 2024                               


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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.
 - Evaluation and comparison of ASP to other paradigms.
 - ASP and related paradigms in applications.
 - 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 here.
 A ready-to-clone overleaf project containing a 1-column CEURART style is available here.

 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 link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=aspocp2024.

 IMPORTANT DATES

  Abstract submission deadline:                              01 August 2024
  Paper submission deadline:                                 08 August 2024
  Notification:                                              05 September 2024


PROCEEDINGS

 Authors of all accepted original contributions can opt to publish their work in formal proceedings.
 Accepted non-original contributions will be given visibility on the conference web site including a link to the original publication, if already published.

 A selection of extended and revised versions of accepted papers could appear in a special issue.
 Extended versions of accepted non-original contributions, if not published in a journal yet, might be included in the issue.


WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS

 Francesco Pacenza, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Calabria, Italy
 Zeynep G. Saribatur, Institute of Logic and Computation, TU Wien, Austria


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

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