Logic Programming, Knowledge Representation, and Nonmonotonic Reasoning: Essays Dedicated to Michael Gelfond on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (6565))

This Festschrift volume, published in honor of Michael Gelfond on the occasion of his 65th birthday, contains a collection of papers written by his closest friends and colleagues. Several of these papers were presented during the Symposium on Constructive Mathematics in Computer Science, held in Lexington, KY, USA on October 25-26, 2010. The 27 scientific papers included in the book focus on answer set programming. The papers are organized in sections named “Foundations: ASP and Theories of LP, KR, and NMR”, “ASP and Dynamic Domains”, and “ASP – Applications and Tools”. Front Matter....Pages - Homage to Michael Gelfond on His 65 th Birthday....Pages 1-11 Answer Set Programming’s Contributions to Classical Logic....Pages 12-32 Closure and Consistency Rationalities in Logic-Based Argumentation....Pages 33-43 Manifold Answer-Set Programs and Their Applications....Pages 44-63 On the Minimality of Stable Models....Pages 64-73 Challenges in Answer Set Solving....Pages 74-90 Exploring Relations between Answer Set Programs....Pages 91-110 Compact Translations of Non-disjunctive Answer Set Programs to Propositional Clauses....Pages 111-130 Effectively Reasoning about Infinite Sets in Answer Set Programming....Pages 131-147 Inspecting Side-Effects of Abduction in Logic Programs....Pages 148-163 Argumentation and Answer Set Programming....Pages 164-180 Cantor’s Paradise Regained: Constructive Mathematics from Brouwer to Kolmogorov to Gelfond....Pages 181-190 Recollections on Michael Gelfond’s 65th Birthday....Pages 191-192 Evolving Logic Programs with Temporal Operators....Pages 193-212 On Representing Actions in Multi-agent Domains....Pages 213-232 Nonmonotonic Multi-Context Systems: A Flexible Approach for Integrating Heterogeneous Knowledge Sources....Pages 233-258 Perspectives on Logic-Based Approaches for Reasoning about Actions and Change....Pages 259-279 Refinement of History-Based Policies....Pages 280-299 Translating General Game Descriptions into an Action Language....Pages 300-314 Revisiting Epistemic Specifications....Pages 315-333 Answer Set; Programming?....Pages 334-343 Michael Gelfond: Essay in Honour of His 65th Birthday....Pages 344-346 PLINI: A Probabilistic Logic Program Framework for Inconsistent News Information....Pages 347-376 ASP as a Cognitive Modeling Tool: Short-Term Memory and Long-Term Memory....Pages 377-397 A Temporally Expressive Planner Based on Answer Set Programming with Constraints: Preliminary Design....Pages 398-414 Applications of Answer Set Programming in Phylogenetic Systematics....Pages 415-431 ASP at Work: Spin-off and Applications of the DLV System....Pages 432-451 Combining Answer Set Programming and Prolog: The $\mathbb{ASP{-}PROLOG}$ System....Pages 452-472 On the Practical Side of Answer Set Programming....Pages 473-489 ASTREA: Answer Sets for a Trusted Reasoning Environment for Agents....Pages 490-509 Tea Times with Gelfond....Pages 510-512 Back Matter....Pages -