IDP4 vs the world
Context is useful
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ASP
- Clingo, DLV, Inca
- Obvious KR connection
- Well-founded semantics ~ Stable semantics
- Ground-and-solve (e.g. plasp paper)
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CP
- MiniZinc, Oscar, Choco, Picat, Numberjack, KODKOD, SEM, Eclipse
- Simple set-theoretic semantics ~ Model semantics
- Finite domains -> ground-and-solve
- Efficient propagators, lazy clause generation
- Expressive constraints
- Origins in Prolog!
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SMT
- Z3, CVC, Sem, Mace, Otto/Prover9, Vampire, Spass
- Typed FO
- No domain -> lazy grounding
- E-matching / congruence closure
- Goal is theorem proving, hard to build models
- Inflexible proof system?
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MIP
- CPLEX, Gurobi, SCIP, GLPK, PPL
- Ground-and-solve (... row/column generation)
- Linear constraints
- Optimization: lower and upper bounds
- Linear relaxation / simplex algorithm
- Pure efficiency focus
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Local search
- LocalSolver, WalkSAT, handcrafted, ...
- Very fast for optimization
- Incomplete for finite search spaces
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Sat
- MiniSat, Glucose, Lingeling, ...
- Propositional
- Resolution proof system
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IntSat
- IntSat
- Ground
- Cutting plane proof system
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QBF
- RareQS, GhostQ, QSTS, Quabs
- (quantified) Propositional
- Can solve Poly Hierarchy (PH)
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B
- ProB
- Higher order!
- Slow
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HiLog
- HiLog
- "Higher order with first-order semantics"
- Only first-order semantics :p
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Prolog
- XSB, B-Prolog, Sicstus, Yap, SWI, ...
- No multi-model semantics
- Non-monotone semantics
- Recursive data structures
- ...
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Lambda calculus
- Haskell, Lisp, Ocaml, ...
- No multi-model semantics
- Elegant syntax
- Abstraction
- Constructed types
- ...
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Imperative programming
- Java, C++, C#, Rust, ...
- No multi-model semantics
- Abstraction
- OO
- ...
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Query languages
- SQL, ...
- Efficient at querying
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...
- Business rules systems
- Probabilistic systems
- Causal systems (FO(C))
- Abductive programming
- ...
CPLEX
Clingo
MiniZinc
Z3
Haskell
XSB
QSTS
LocalSolver
ProB
IntSat
HiLog
C++
SQL
"Grab the best, leave the rest"
+ C-interface, external functions, relevance, symmetry, ...
* No Silver Bullets!
MiniSat
Not playing the "up the wall game"
vs complexity theory
NP
P
PH(i)
Semi-undecidable
(Turing complete)
(finite) FO
(finite) definition with known opens
(finite) HO
infinite domain FO
MX inference:
Input language
Complexity class
(finite) MX
Querying
Nested (finite) MX
Theorem proving
Inference
NPO
(finite) FO with optimality term
(finite) Optimization
Fagin
IDP4 vs the world
By Jo Devriendt
