Johannes Oetsch
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Research Interests
- Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
- Answer-Set Programming
- Neurosymbolic AI
- Search and Optimisation in Industrial Contexts
Short Bio
Johannes earned his PhD from TU Wien (Vienna University of Technology) and conducted a research internship at the National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Tokyo during his PhD program. Subsequently, he spent two years as a postdoc in Umea, Sweden. Johannes also participated in a four-year industrial collaboration between TU Wien and the Bosch Center for AI in Germany, contributing to the bridge between academic and industrial research.
Publications
Article
Eiter, T., Geibinger, T., Higuera Ruiz, N., Musliu, N., Oetsch, J., Pfliegler, D., Stepanova, D.
(2024).
Adaptive large-neighbourhood search for optimisation in answer-set programming Artificial Intelligence, 337.
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Eiter, T., Geibinger, T., Musli, N., Oetsch, J., Skočovský, P., Stepanova, D.
(2023).
Answer-Set Programming for Lexicographical Makespan Optimisation in Parallel Machine Scheduling Theory and Practice of Logic Programming, 23(6), 1281-1306.
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Eiter, T., Higuera, N., Oetsch, J., Pritz, M.
(2022).
A Neuro-Symbolic ASP Pipeline for Visual Question Answering Theory and Practice of Logic Programming, 22(5), 739-754.
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Oetsch, J., Seidl, M., Tompits, H., Woltran, S.
(2021).
Beyond Uniform Equivalence between Answer-set Programs ACM Transactions on Computational Logic, 22(1).
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Oetsch, J., Pührer, J., Tompits, H.
(2018).
Stepwise debugging of answer-set programs Theory and Practice of Logic Programming, 18(1), 30-80.
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Busoniu, P., Oetsch, J., Pührer, J., Skočovský, P., Tompits, H.
(2013).
SeaLion: An eclipse-based IDE for answer-set programming with advanced debugging support Theory and Practice of Logic Programming, 13(4-5), 657-673.
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De Vos, M., Kisa, D., Oetsch, J., Pührer, J., Tompits, H.
(2012).
Annotating answer-set programs in Lana Theory and Practice of Logic Programming, 12(4-5), 619-637.
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Brain, M., Erdem, E., Inoue, K., Oetsch, J., Pührer, J., Tompits, H., Yilmaz, C.
(2012).
Event-sequence testing using answer-set programming International Journal on Advances in Software, 5(3 & 4), 237-251.
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Oetsch, J., Pührer, J., Schwengerer, M., Tompits, H.
(2010).
The system Kato: Detecting cases of plagiarism for answer-set programs Theory and Practice of Logic Programming, 10(4-6), 759-775.
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Oetsch, J., Pührer, J., Tompits, H.
(2010).
Catching the Ouroboros: On debugging non-ground answer-set programs Theory and Practice of Logic Programming, 10(4-6), 513-529.
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Doctoral thesis
Oetsch, J.
(2021).
Testing for ASP—ASP for Testing
(Doctoral thesis, Wien:
Technische Universität Wien).
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Book chapter
Oetsch, J., Pührer, J., Tompits, H.
(2012).
Stepwise debugging of description-logic programs.
In:
E. Erdem, J. Lee, Y. Lierler & D. Pearce
(Ed.),
Correct Reasoning:
Essays on Logic-Based AI in Honour of Vladimir Lifschitz
(pp. 492 -508).
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Conference paper
Bauer, J., Eiter, T., Ruiz, N., Oetsch, J.
(2025).
Visual Graph Question Answering with ASP and LLMs for Language Parsing.
40th International Conference on Logic Programming, ICLP 2024 Dallas 14 October 2024 through 17 October 2024.
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Eiter, T., Geibinger, T., Oetsch, J.
(2023).
Contrastive Explanations for Answer-Set Programs.
18th European Conference, JELIA 2023, Dresden, Germany, September 20–22, 2023.
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Eiter, T., Geibinger, T., Higuera, N., Oetsch, J.
(2023).
A Logic-based Approach to Contrastive Explainability for Neurosymbolic Visual Question Answering.
32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2023, 19 August-25 August 2023.
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Eiter, T., Ruiz, N., Oetsch, J.
(2023).
A Modular Neurosymbolic Approach for Visual Graph Question Answering.
17th International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning, Siena, Italy, July 3-5, 2023.
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Bauer, J., Eiter, T., Ruiz, N., Oetsch, J.
(2023).
Neuro-symbolic Visual Graph Question Answering with LLMs for language parsing.
TAASP 2023, Workshop on Trends and Applications of Answer Set Programming, November 20-21, 2023, Potsdam, Germany.
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Eiter, T., Geibinger, T., Higuera, N., Musliu, N., Oetsch, J., Stepanova, D.
(2022).
ALASPO: An Adaptive Large-Neighbourhood ASP Optimiser.
19th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, KR 2022, 31 July-5 August 2022, Haifa, Israel.
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Eiter, T., Geibinger, T., Ruiz, N., Musliu, N., Oetsch, J., Stepanova, D.
(2022).
Large-Neighbourhood Search for ASP Optimisation.
38th International Conference on Logic Programming, ICLP 2022, 31 July-6 August 2022, Haifa, Israel.
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Eiter, T., Geibinger, T., Ruiz, N., Musliu, N., Oetsch, J., Stepanova, D.
(2022).
Large-Neighbourhood Search for Optimisation in Answer-Set Solving.
36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2022, 22 February-1 March 2022.
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Eiter, T., Higuera, N., Oetsch, J., Pritz, M.
(2022).
A confidence-based interface for neuro-symbolic visual question answering.
CLeaR 2022, The First International Workshop on Combining Learning and Reasoning: Programming Languages, Formalisms, and Representations In conjunction with the 36th AAAI conference on artificial intelligence (AAAI-2022), February 22–March 1, 2022, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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Eiter, T., Geibinger, T., Gisbrecht, A., Ruiz, N., Musliu, N., Oetsch, J., Stepanova, D.
(2022).
An open challenge for exact job scheduling with reticle batching in photolithography.
2022 Workshop on Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling, An ICAPS'22 Workshop, 15 June 2022, Singapore.
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Eiter, T., Geibinger, T., Musliu, N., Oetsch, J., Skočovský, P., Stepanova, D.
(2021).
Answer-Set Programming for Lexicographical Makespan Optimisation in Parallel Machine Scheduling.
18th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, KR 2021, 3 November 2021 through 12 November 2021.
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Oetsch, J., Nieves, J.
(2019).
Stable-Ordered Models for Propositional Theories with Order Operators.
16th European Conference, JELIA 2019, Rende, Italy, May 7–11, 2019.
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Greßler, A., Tompits, H., Oetsch, J.
(2017).
Harvey: A system for random testing in ASP.
14th International Conference, LPNMR 2017, Espoo, Finland, July 3-6, 2017.
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Egly, U., Lonsing, F., Oetsch, J.
(2015).
Automated benchmarking of incremental SAT and QBF solvers.
20th International Conference, LPAR-20 2015, Suva, Fiji, November 24-28, 2015.
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Alviano, M.
Calimeri, F.
Charwat, G.
Dao-Tran, M.
Dodaro, C.
Ianni, G.
, ... Xiao G.
(2013).
The fourth answer set programming competition: Preliminary report.
12th International Conference, LPNMR 2013, Corunna, Spain, September 15-19, 2013.
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Kloimüllner, C., Oetsch, J., Pührer, J., Tompits, H.
(2013).
Kara: A system for visualising and visual editing of interpretations for answer-set programs.
19th International Conference, INAP 2011, and 25th Workshop on Logic Programming, WLP 2011, Vienna, Austria, September 28-30, 2011.
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Oetsch, J., Pührer, J., Tompits, H.
(2013).
The SeaLion has landed: An IDE for answer-set programming—preliminary report.
19th International Conference, INAP 2011, and 25th Workshop on Logic Programming, WLP 2011, Vienna, Austria, September 28-30, 2011.
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Oetsch, J., Prischink, M., Pührer, J., Schwengerer, M., Tompits, H.
(2012).
On the small-scope hypothesis for testing answer-set programs.
13th International Conference on the Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, KR 2012, 10-14 June 2012, Rome, Italy.
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Oetsch, J., Pührer, J., Tompits, H.
(2012).
An FLP-style answer-set semantics for abstract-constraint programs with disjunctions.
28th International Conference on Logic Programming, ICLP 2012, 4 September 2012 through 8 September 2012, Budapest, Hungary.
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Oetsch, J., Pührer, J., Tompits, H.
(2012).
Extending object-oriented languages by declarative specifications of complex objects using answer-set programming.
26th Workshop on Logic Programming, WLP 2012, 24-25 September 2012, Bonn, Germany.
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De Vos, M., Kisa, D., Oetsch, J., Puehrer, J., Tompits, H.
(2012).
LANA: A Language for Annotating Answer-Set Programs.
NMR 2012, 14th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning, 8–10 June 2012, Rome, Italy.
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Erdem, E., Inoue, K., Oetsch, J., Pührer, J., Tompits, H., Yilmaz, C.
(2011).
Answer-set programming as a new approach to event-sequence testing.
3rd International Conference on Advances in System Testing and Validation Lifecycle, VALID 2011, 23-29 October 2011, Barcelona, Spain.
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Oetsch, J., Pührer, J., Seidl, M., Tompits, H., Zwickl, P.
(2011).
VIDEAS: A development tool for answer-set programs based on model-driven engineering technology.
11th International Conference, LPNMR 2011, Vancouver, Canada, May 16-19, 2011.
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Janhunen, T., Niemelä, I., Oetsch, J., Pührer, J., Tompits, H.
(2011).
Random vs. structure-based testing of answer-set programs: An experimental comparison.
11th International Conference, LPNMR 2011, Vancouver, Canada, May 16-19, 2011.
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Oetsch, J., Pührer, J., Tompits, H.
(2011).
Stepping through an answer-set program.
11th International Conference, LPNMR 2011, Vancouver, Canada, May 16-19, 2011.
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Oetsch, J., Tompits, H.
(2011).
Gentzen-type refutation systems for three-valued logics with an application to disproving strong equivalence.
11th International Conference, LPNMR 2011, Vancouver, Canada, May 16-19, 2011.
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Oetsch, J., Pührer, J., Seidl, M., Tompits, H., Zwickl, P.
(2011).
VIDEAS: Supporting Answer-Set ProgramDevelopment using Model-Driven Engineering Techniques.
MELO 2011 - Model-Driven Engineering, Logic and Optimization: friends or foes? 6 June 2011, Birmingham, UK.
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Janhunen, T., Niemelä, I., Oetsch, J., Pührer, J., Tompits, H.
(2010).
On testing answer-set programs.
2nd Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Health Care, KR4HC 2010, in conjunction with the 19th European Conference in Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2010, 17 August 2010, Lisbon, Portugal.
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Oetsch, J., Pührer, J., Tompits, H.
(2010).
Methods and methodologies for developing answer-set programs project description.
26th International Conference on Logic Programming, ICLP 2010, 16-19 July 2010, Edinburgh, UK.
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Oetsch, J., Puehrer, J., Tompits, H.
(2010).
Let’s Break the Rules: Interactive Procedural-Style Debugging of Answer-Set Programs.
24th Workshop on Constraint Logic Programming, WLP 2010.
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Oetsch, J., Tompits, H.
(2010).
Gentzen-type Refutation Systems for Three-Valued Logics.
24th Workshop on Constraint Logic Programming, WLP 2010.
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Oetsch, J., Schwengerer, M., Tompits, H.
(2009).
Kato: A plagiarism-detection tool for answer-set programs.
23rd Workshop on (Constraint) Logic Programming 2009, WLP 2009, 15-16 September 2009, Potsdam, Germany.
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Oetsch, J., Seidl, M., Tompits, H., Woltran, S.
(2009).
Cc Τ on stage: Generalised uniform equivalence testing for verifying student assignment solutions.
10th International Conference, LPNMR 2009, Potsdam, Germany, September 14-18, 2009.
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Oetsch, J., Seidl, M., Tompits, H., Woltran, S.
(2009).
Testing relativised uniform equivalence under answer-set projection in the system cc ⊤.
17th International Conference, INAP 2007, and 21st Workshop on Logic Programming, WLP 2007, Würzburg, Germany, October 4-6, 2007.
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Oetsch, J., Tompits, H.
(2008).
Program correspondence under the answer-set semantics: The non-ground case.
24th International Conference, ICLP 2008 Udine, Italy, December 9-13, 2008.
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Oetsch, J., Tompits, H.
(2008).
A generalised program-correspondence framework: Preliminary report.
22nd Workshop on (Constraint) Logic Programming, WLP 2008, 30 September-1 October 2008, Dresden, Germany.
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Oetsch, J., Tompits, H., Woltran, S.
(2007).
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored: Relativised uniform equivalence with answer-set projection.
22nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 19th Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, 22-26 July 2007, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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Oetsch, J., Seidl, M., Tompits, H., Woltran, S.
(2007).
An Extension of the System cc⊤ for Testing Relativised Uniform Equivalence under Answer-Set Projection.
16th International Conference on Computing.
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Oetsch, J., Seidl, M., Tompits, H., Woltran, S.
(2006).
Cc ⊤: A tool for checking advanced correspondence problems in answer-set programming.
15th International Conference on Computing, CIC 2006, 21-24 November 2006, Mexico City, Mexico.
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Oetsch, J., Seidl, M., Tompits, H., Woltran, S.
(2006).
A tool for advanced correspondence checking in answer-set programming: Preliminary experimental results.
20th Workshop on Logic Programming, WLP 2006, 22-24 February 2006, Vienna.
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Oetsch, J., Seidl, M., Tompits, H., Woltran, S.
(2006).
ccT: A correspondence-checking tool for logic programs under the answer-set semantics.
Berlin:
Springer, 10th European Conference on Logics on Artificial Intelligence, JELIA 2006, Liverpool, UK, September 13-15, 2006.
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Oetsch, J., Seidl, M., Tompits, H., Woltran, S.
(2006).
A tool for advanced correspondence checking in answer-set programming.
Clausthal-Zellerfeld:
Clausthal University of Technology, 11th Workshop on Nonmonotonic Reasoning.
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Other publications
Oetsch, J., Nieves, J.
.
A Knowledge Representation Perspective on Activity Theory.
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Conference proceedings (editor)
Tompits, H., Abreu, S., Oetsch, J., Pührer, J., Seipel, D., Umeda, M., Wolf, A. (Eds.).
(2013).
Applications of declarative programming and knowledge management: 19th International Conference, INAP 2011, and 25th Workshop on Logic Programming, WLP 2011, Vienna, Austria, September 28-30, 2011, Revised Selected Papers.
, Berlin:
Springer
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Abreu, S., Oetsch, J., Puehrer, J., Seipel, D., Tompits, H., Umeda, M., Wolf, A. (Eds.).
(2011).
Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Applications of Declarative Programming and Knowledge Management (INAP 2011) and 25th Workshop on Logic Programming (WLP 2011).
, Wien:
TU Wien
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