Title: Constraints, Lazy Constraints, or Propagators in ASP Solving: An Empirical Analysis,
Abstract: Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a well-established declarative paradigm. One
of the successes of ASP is the availability of efficient systems.
State-of-the-art systems are based on the ground+solve approach. In some
applications this approach is infeasible because the grounding of one or few
constraints is expensive. In this paper, we systematically compare alternative
strategies to avoid the instantiation of problematic constraints, that are
based on custom extensions of the solver. Results on real and synthetic
benchmarks highlight some strengths and weaknesses of the different strategies.
(Under consideration for acceptance in TPLP, ICLP 2017 Special Issue.)