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most citedJustifications for Goal-Directed Constraint Answer Set Programming

33 citations · 56 across the 26 of their papers we have counts for

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27 papers

cs.LO2026

An Approach to the Abstract Interpretation of Goal-Directed Answer Set Programming

Daniel Jurjo-Rivas, Joaquín Arias, Gopal Gupta +3

Abstract Interpretation infers and verifies program properties by over-approximating program semantics. It has been highly successful for (Constraint) Logic Programming, enabling t…

cs.LO2026

Event Calculus Meets Hybrid ASP

Ondřej Vašíček, Joaquín Arias, Jan Fiedor +5

Event Calculus (EC) implemented in answer set programming (ASP) has proven suitable for specifying requirements on safety-critical systems thanks to its elegant representation of b…

cs.LO2026

On Zeno-like Behaviors in the Event Calculus with Goal-directed Answer Set Programming

Ondřej Vašíček, Joaquin Arias, Jan Fiedor +5

It has been argued that Event Calculus (EC) is suitable for modeling high-level specifications of safety-critical cyber-physical systems. The primary advantage lies in the rather s…

cs.AI2025

P2C: Path to Counterfactuals

Sopam Dasgupta, Sadaf MD Halim, Joaquín Arias +2

Machine-learning models are increasingly driving decisions in high-stakes settings, such as finance, law, and hiring, thus, highlighting the need for transparency. However, the key…

cs.AI2025

MC3G: Model Agnostic Causally Constrained Counterfactual Generation

Sopam Dasgupta, Sadaf MD Halim, Joaquín Arias +2

Machine learning models increasingly influence decisions in high-stakes settings such as finance, law and hiring, driving the need for transparent, interpretable outcomes. However,…

cs.AI2025

Modeling Deontic Modal Logic in ASP

Gopal Gupta, Abhiramon Rajasekharan, Alexis R. Tudor +2

We consider the problem of implementing deontic modal logic. We show how (deontic) modal operators can be elegantly and directly expressed using default negation (negation-as-failu…

cs.AI2025

Building Trustworthy AI by Addressing its 16+2 Desiderata with Goal-Directed Commonsense Reasoning

Alexis R. Tudor, Yankai Zeng, Huaduo Wang +2

Current advances in AI and its applicability have highlighted the need to ensure its trustworthiness for legal, ethical, and even commercial reasons. Sub-symbolic machine learning…

cs.LO2025

VECSR: Virtually Embodied Common Sense Reasoning System

Alexis R. Tudor, Joaquín Arias, Gopal Gupta

The development of autonomous agents has seen a revival of enthusiasm due to the emergence of LLMs, such as GPT-4o. Deploying these agents in environments where they coexist with h…

cs.AI2024

CoGS: Model Agnostic Causality Constrained Counterfactual Explanations using goal-directed ASP

Sopam Dasgupta, Joaquín Arias, Elmer Salazar +1

Machine learning models are increasingly used in critical areas such as loan approvals and hiring, yet they often function as black boxes, obscuring their decision-making processes…

cs.LO2024★ 6 cited

Automating Semantic Analysis of System Assurance Cases using Goal-directed ASP

Anitha Murugesan, Isaac Wong, Joaquín Arias +6

Assurance cases offer a structured way to present arguments and evidence for certification of systems where safety and security are critical. However, creating and evaluating these…

cs.LO2024★ 1 cited

Early Validation of High-level System Requirements with Event Calculus and Answer Set Programming

Ondřej Vašíček, Joaquin Arias, Jan Fiedor +6

This paper proposes a new methodology for early validation of high-level requirements on cyber-physical systems with the aim of improving their quality and, thus, lowering chances…

cs.CL2024★ 5 cited

A Reliable Common-Sense Reasoning Socialbot Built Using LLMs and Goal-Directed ASP

Yankai Zeng, Abhiramon Rajashekharan, Kinjal Basu +3

The development of large language models (LLMs), such as GPT, has enabled the construction of several socialbots, like ChatGPT, that are receiving a lot of attention for their abil…

cs.AI2024★ 1 cited

CoGS: Causality Constrained Counterfactual Explanations using goal-directed ASP

Sopam Dasgupta, Joaquín Arias, Elmer Salazar +1

Machine learning models are increasingly used in areas such as loan approvals and hiring, yet they often function as black boxes, obscuring their decision-making processes. Transpa…

cs.AI2024

CFGs: Causality Constrained Counterfactual Explanations using goal-directed ASP

Sopam Dasgupta, Joaquín Arias, Elmer Salazar +1

Machine learning models that automate decision-making are increasingly used in consequential areas such as loan approvals, pretrial bail approval, and hiring. Unfortunately, most o…

cs.AI2024

Counterfactual Generation with Answer Set Programming

Sopam Dasgupta, Farhad Shakerin, Joaquín Arias +2

Machine learning models that automate decision-making are increasingly being used in consequential areas such as loan approvals, pretrial bail approval, hiring, and many more. Unfo…

cs.AI2023

Counterfactual Explanation Generation with s(CASP)

Sopam Dasgupta, Farhad Shakerin, Joaquín Arias +2

Machine learning models that automate decision-making are increasingly being used in consequential areas such as loan approvals, pretrial bail, hiring, and many more. Unfortunately…

cs.AI2023★ 5 cited

Automated Interactive Domain-Specific Conversational Agents that Understand Human Dialogs

Yankai Zeng, Abhiramon Rajasekharan, Parth Padalkar +3

Achieving human-like communication with machines remains a classic, challenging topic in the field of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning and Natural Language Processing. These…

cs.LO2022★ 1 cited

Building Information Modeling Using Constraint Logic Programming

Joaquín Arias, Seppo Törmä, Manuel Carro +1

Building Information Modeling (BIM) produces three-dimensional models of buildings combining the geometrical information with a wide range of properties. BIM is slowly but inevitab…

cs.AI2021

Towards Dynamic Consistency Checking in Goal-directed Predicate Answer Set Programming

Joaquín Arias, Manuel Carro, Gopal Gupta

Goal-directed evaluation of Answer Set Programs is gaining traction thanks to its amenability to create AI systems that can, due to the evaluation mechanism used, generate explanat…

cs.LO2021★ 4 cited

Knowledge-Assisted Reasoning of Model-Augmented System Requirements with Event Calculus and Goal-Directed Answer Set Programming

Brendan Hall, Sarat Chandra Varanasi, Jan Fiedor +7

We consider requirements for cyber-physical systems represented in constrained natural language. We present novel automated techniques for aiding in the development of these requir…

cs.AI2021

Modeling and Reasoning in Event Calculus using Goal-Directed Constraint Answer Set Programming

Joaquín Arias, Manuel Carro, Zhuo Chen +1

Automated commonsense reasoning is essential for building human-like AI systems featuring, for example, explainable AI. Event Calculus (EC) is a family of formalisms that model com…

cs.CL2021

Knowledge-driven Natural Language Understanding of English Text and its Applications

Kinjal Basu, Sarat Varanasi, Farhad Shakerin +2

Understanding the meaning of a text is a fundamental challenge of natural language understanding (NLU) research. An ideal NLU system should process a language in a way that is not…

cs.LO2020

A Theoretical Study of (Full) Tabled Constraint Logic Programming

Joaquín Arias, Manuel Carro

Logic programming with tabling and constraints (TCLP, tabled constraint logic programming) has been shown to be more expressive and, in some cases, more efficient than LP, CLP, or…

cs.LO2020★ 33 cited

Justifications for Goal-Directed Constraint Answer Set Programming

Joaquín Arias, Manuel Carro, Zhuo Chen +1

Ethical and legal concerns make it necessary for programs that may directly influence the life of people (via, e.g., legal or health counseling) to justify in human-understandable…