Explanations for Answer Set Programming

The paper presents an enhancement of xASP, a system that generates explanation graphs for Answer Set Programming (ASP). Different from xASP, the new system, xASP2, supports different clingo constructs like the choice rules, the constraints, and the aggregates such as #sum, #min. This work formalizes and presents an explainable artificial intelligence system for a broad fragment of ASP, capable of shrinking as much as possible the set of assumptions and presenting explanations in terms of directed acyclic graphs.

exp(ASPc) : Explaining ASP Programs with Choice Atoms and Constraint Rules

We present an enhancement of exp(ASP), a system that generates explanation graphs for a literal l - an atom a or its default negation ~a - given an answer set A of a normal logic program P, which explain why l is true (or false) given A and P. The new system, exp(ASPc), differs from exp(ASP) in that it supports choice rules and utilizes constraint rules to provide explanation graphs that include information about choices and constraints.

Generating explanations for answer set programming applications

We present an explanation system for applications that leverage Answer Set Programming (ASP). Given a program P, an answer set A of P, and an atom a in the program P, our system generates all explanation graphs of a which help explain why a is true (or false) given the program P and the answer set A. We illustrate the functionality of the system using some examples from the literature.