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