Conditional updates of answer set programming and its application in explainable planning

  • Van Nguyen
  • , Tran Cao Son
  • , Stylianos Loukas Vasileiou
  • , William Yeoh

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Abstract

In explainable planning, the planning agent needs to explain its plan to a human user, especially when the plan appears infeasible or suboptimal for the user. A popular approach is called model reconciliation, where the agent reconciles the differences between its model and the model of the user such that its plan is also feasible and optimal to the user. This problem can be viewed as a more general problem as follows: Given two knowledge bases πa and πh and a query q such that πa entails q and πh does not entail q, where the notion of entailment is dependent on the logical theories underlying πa and πh, how to change πh - given πa and the support for q in πa - so that πh does entail q. In this paper, we study this problem under the context of answer set programming. To achieve this goal, we (1) define the notion of a conditional update between two logic programs πa and πh with respect to a query q; (2) define the notion of an explanation for a query q from a program πa to a program πh using conditional updates; (3) develop algorithms for computing explanations; and (4) show how the notion of explanation based on conditional updates can be used in explainable planning.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 19th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2020
EditorsBo An, Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni, Gita Sukthankar
PublisherInternational Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS)
Pages1954-1956
Number of pages3
ISBN (Electronic)9781450375184
StatePublished - 2020
Event19th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2020 - Virtual, Auckland, New Zealand
Duration: May 19 2020 → …

Publication series

NameProceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS
Volume2020-May
ISSN (Print)1548-8403
ISSN (Electronic)1558-2914

Conference

Conference19th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2020
Country/TerritoryNew Zealand
CityVirtual, Auckland
Period05/19/20 → …

Keywords

  • Answer Set Programming
  • Explainable Planning

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