The Seventh Answer Set Programming Competition: Design and Results
This work is incremental, as it continues the biennial tradition of ASP competitions to evaluate and benchmark progress in the field for researchers and practitioners.
The paper reports on the design and results of the Seventh Answer Set Programming Competition, which aimed to provide benchmark collections and assess advancements in ASP solving, with specific outcomes detailed from the event held in affiliation with LPNMR 2017.
Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a prominent knowledge representation language with roots in logic programming and non-monotonic reasoning. Biennial ASP competitions are organized in order to furnish challenging benchmark collections and assess the advancement of the state of the art in ASP solving. In this paper, we report on the design and results of the Seventh ASP Competition, jointly organized by the University of Calabria (Italy), the University of Genova (Italy), and the University of Potsdam (Germany), in affiliation with the 14th International Conference on Logic Programming and Non-Monotonic Reasoning (LPNMR 2017). (Under consideration for acceptance in TPLP).