Answer Set Programming: Towards Efficient and Scalable Knowledge
Representation and Reasoning

(Tentative Schedule)


Monday
(03/26/01)
9 am - 9:10 am
Welcome and announcements
9:10 am - 10:30 am

(Answer sets from a different perspective)

Invited speaker: Selman (60)
Answer Set Programming and Bounded Model Checking (Keijo Heljanko and Ilkka Niemela) (20)
11 am - 12:30 pm

(Computational & representational aspects )

Representing Configuration Knowledge With Weight Constraint Rules (Timo Soininen, Ilkka Niemela, Juha Tiihonen, and Reijo Sulonen) (30)
 Dynamical Properties of Answer Set Programs 
(Howard A. Blair) (20)
Computing Preferred and Weakly Preferred Answer Sets by Meta­Interpretation in Answer Set Programming (Thomas Eiter, Wolfgang Faber, Nicola Leone, and Gerald Pfeifer) (20)
 Comparing different graph representations of logic programs under the Answer Set semantics (Stefania Costantini)  (20)
2 pm - 3:30 pm

(Parallelism)

 Computing stable models in parallel (R.A. Finkel, V.W. Marek, N. Moore and M. Truszczynski)  (20)
Exploiting Vertical Parallelism from Answer Set Programs (Abstract) (Enrico Pontelli and Omar El­Khatib)  (20)
6 poster annoucements (50)
4 pm - 5:30 pm
Poster session
6 pm - 7 pm
Reception
Tuesday
(03/27/01)
9 am - 10:30 am

(Theory)

On the Foundations of Answer Set Programming  (V.W.Marek and J.B.Remmel) (30)
Transitive Closure, Answer Sets and Predicate Completion (Esra Erdem and Vladimir Lifschitz) (20)
A Comparative Study of Logic Programs with Preference: Preliminary Report (Torsten Schaub and Kewen Wang)  (20)
Useful Transformations in Answer set programming (M. Osorio, J. C. Nieves, and C. Giannella)  (20)
11 am - 12:30 pm

(Knowledge Representation)

Additive Fluents 
(Joohyung Lee and Vladimir Lifschitz)  (30)
 Effect of knowledge representation on model based planning: experiments using logic programming encodings 
(Le­chi Tuan and Chitta Baral) (20)
 More on Wire Routing with ASP 
(Deborah East and Miroslaw Truszczynski) (20)
Pertinence Logic Characterisation of Stable Models (Preliminary Report) (Ramon P. Otero) 
2 pm - 3:30 pm

 

Benchmark presentation (10)

Systems presentation (50)
- smodels (HUT)
- DLV (TU Vienna)
- XSB (by Teknowledge)
- PLP & Nomore (Potsdam)
- PS (Kentucky)
3 Poster annoucements
2 Position Papers
4 pm - 5:30 pm
Posters/system demo session
6 pm - 7 pm
Plenary Session
speaker: Vladimir Lifschitz
Wednesday
(03/28/01)
9 am - 10:30 am
(New Applications)
Diagnosing Dynamic Systems in A­Prolog 
(Michael Gelfond and Joel Galloway)  (30)
Learning by Answer Sets (Chiaki Sakama)  (20)
Reasoning about Policies using Logic Programs 
(Tran Cao Son and Jorge Lobo)  (20)
An A­Prolog decision support system for the Space Shuttle  (M. Nogueira, M. Balduccini, M. Gelfond, R. Watson, and M. Barry) (20)
11 am - 12:30 pm
Extending Answer Set Planning with Sequence, Conditional, Loop, Non-Deterministic Choice, and Procedure Constructs 
(Tran Cao Son, Chitta Baral, and Sheila McIlraith)  (20)



System demo results + Romp session
Wrap Up