Solving Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems Using Logic Programming

Abstract

This paper explores the use of answer set programming (ASP) in solving distributed constraint optimization problems (DCOPs). It makes the following contributions: (i)~It shows how one can formulate DCOPs as logic programs; (ii)~It introduces ASP-DPOP, the first DCOP algorithm that is based on logic programming; (iii)~It experimentally shows that ASP-DPOP can be up to two orders of magnitude faster than DPOP (its imperative-programming counterpart) as well as solve some problems that DPOP fails to solve due to memory limitations; and (iv)~It demonstrates the applicability of ASP in the wide array of multi-agent problems currently modeled as DCOPs.

Cite

Text

Le et al. "Solving Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems Using Logic Programming." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2015. doi:10.1609/AAAI.V29I1.9365

Markdown

[Le et al. "Solving Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems Using Logic Programming." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2015.](https://mlanthology.org/aaai/2015/le2015aaai-solving/) doi:10.1609/AAAI.V29I1.9365

BibTeX

@inproceedings{le2015aaai-solving,
  title     = {{Solving Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems Using Logic Programming}},
  author    = {Le, Tiep and Son, Tran Cao and Pontelli, Enrico and Yeoh, William},
  booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year      = {2015},
  pages     = {1174-1181},
  doi       = {10.1609/AAAI.V29I1.9365},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/aaai/2015/le2015aaai-solving/}
}