一个带破圈启发方法的回答集编程系统(英文)

An Answer Set Programming System with Cycle Breaking Heuristic

回答集编程(answer set programming,ASP)是一种回答集语义下的逻辑编程范例,可应用于非单调推理,叙述式问题求解等领域.本文为ASP提出并实现了一种破圈启发方法与一种基部限制式前向搜索过程,所得到的系统称为LPS.实验结果显示,相对于其他经典的ASP系统,LPS能够有效地解决处于相变难区域中的逻辑程序,通常这些程序被认为是计算困难的.除此以外,通过使用被称为动态变元过滤(dynamic variable filtering,DVF)的技术,LPS可以在计算过程中极大地缩小搜索树的尺寸.

Answer set programming （ASP） is a logic programming paradigm under answer set semantics, which can be utilized in the field of non-monotonic reasoning and declarative problem solving, etc. This paper proposes and implements a cycle breaking heuristic and a bottom-restricted look-ahead procedure for ASP, and the resulting system is called LPS. The experimental results show that, relative to other state-of-the-art ASP systems, LPS could efficiently solve logic programs in phase transition hard-job-regions, and these programs are generally considered difficult to compute. In addition, by applying the so-called dynamic variable filtering （DVF） technique, LPS could greatly reduce the search tree size during the computation.