July 2022: The AuReLeE conclusion workshop,
with eight invited keynotes by experts from automated reasoning and/or normative and deontic logics,
took place from July 15 - July 22 at the University of Luxembourg. Thank you for the productive
working sessions and discussions!
June 2022: The program of PAAR 2022, taking place on August 11-12 2022 at FLoC/IJCAR in Haifa, Israel,
is available. We have 14 contributed talks, two invited talks (Geoff Sutcliffe and Josef Urban),
and two sessions dedicated to the working group 2 of the COST action EuroProofNet.
See all details at the PAAR 2022 web page.
June 2022: The first deadline for abstract of
Deduktionstreffen 2022 is approaching. Looking forward to see your submissions!
April 2022: Claudia Schon's and my workshop proposal for the next Deduktionstreffen at the KI 2022
has been accepted. Deduktionstreffen 2022 will finally again be implemented as a colloquial in-place meeting at Trier.
Details will follow soon.
March 2022: I was appointed as German Informatics Society ambassador
(GI-Botschafter)
to the University of Greifswald.
February 2022:
The conference paper "Von Objekt- und Meta-Ebenen: Analyse der Softwareanforderungen computergestützter juristischer Entscheidung"
(On object and meta levels: Analysis of software requirements for computer-assisted legal decisions),
presented at the 25. Internationales Rechtsinformatik Symposion (International Legal Informatics Symposium, IRIS 2022),
was selected as one of the Top 10 Papers by the
LexisNexis best paper award
jury.
The paper is co-written by Axel Adrian, Max Rapp (FAU University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) and myself.
January 2022:
Claudia Schon
and myself were re-elected as spokespersons of the
SIG deduction systems (Fachgruppe Deduktionssysteme)
of the AI section of the German Informatics Society (GI).
Thanks a lot for your trust!
January 2022: I started a new position as assistant professor for computer science
at the University of Greifswald.
November 2021: A guest column about automation of non-classical logics,
authored by Claudia Nalon (Univ. of Brasilia) and myself, has been published in the
most recent edition of the AAR newsletter (Association for Automated Reasoning).
You can find the article in the
Newsletter No. 136.
July 23-29, 2022:
31th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 23rd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-ECAI 2022),
Vienna, Austria. (PC member)
July 31 - August 12, 2022:
Federated Logic Conference (FLoC 2021), Haifa, Isreal.
July 31 - August 5, 2022:
19th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2022), Haifa, Israel.
August 7 - August 12, 2022:
International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR 2022), Haifa, Israel.
August 11-12, 2022: 8th Workshop on Practical Aspects of Automated Reasoning (PAAR-2022),
co-located at IJCAR/FLoC 2022, Haifa, Isreal. (PC co-chair)
August 11, 2022: 4th Int. Workshop on Automated Reasoning in Quantified Non-Classical Logics (ARQNL 2022),
co-located at IJCAR/FLoC 2022, Haifa, Isreal. (PC member)
September 5 - 7, 2022: PhDs in Logic XIII, Turin, Italy. (PC member)
September 19 - 23, 2022: 45th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2022), Trier, Germany. (PC member)
September 2X, 2022: Deduktionstreffen 2022, workshop at KI 2022 in Trier, Germany. Final date to be determined. (PC co-chair)
September 26 - 28, 2022: 6th International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning (RuleML+RR 2022), Berlin, Germany. (Doctoral consortium co-chair)
September 26 - 30, 2022: INFORMATIK 2022 - 52. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik, Hamburg, Germany.
September 29 - 30, 2022: SKILL - Studierendenkonferenz Informatik, Hamburg, Germany. (PC member)
This is the personal homepage of Alexander Steen. I am a Juniorprofessor (this is roughly equivalent
to an assistant professor position)
at the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Greifswald.
I'm working on computational logic, automated reasoning and theoretical computer science.
I'm the lead developer of the automated theorem prover
Leo-III,
a reasoning system for classical higher-order logic (HOL) and further expressive,
non-classical logics (including higher-order modal logics and deontic logics)
as well as further smaller software artifacts.
My ORCID ID is 0000-0001-8781-9462.
My current research interests include theory and practice of higher-order reasoning, including efficient data structures for higher-order theorem provers, and related implementation techniques. Furthermore, I'm interested in practical aspects and applications of logics and formal methods in computer science, mathematics and philosophy. Also, I like functional programming (e.g. in Haskell). A research profile (self-portrayal) about my recent work was published by the it - Information Technology journal: See doi:10.1515/itit-2019-0001.
In my freetime, I'm a bass singer in a choir for classical music of various periods and singer in a Schola Cantorum (Vokalschola), see "Links" section.
AuReLeE is funded by Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) under grant CORE C20/IS/14616644, proposer and PI (until end of 2022): A. Steen
The goal of the project Automated Reasoning with Legal Entities (AuReLeE) is to provide effective and general means for the automation of normative reasoning processes based on legal knowledge bases. To this end, the project will design and implement a dedicated system that combines efficient decision procedures with a flexible approach to import and re-use existing knowledge bases for their employment as underlying contexts for the normative reasoning tasks. The results of AuReLeE hence allow to full utilization of the existing legal knowledge bases’ potential for compliance checking.
AuReLeE is conducted at the Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine of the University of Luxembourg. It is hosted by the Individual and Collective Reasoning (ICR) research group at the Depart of Computer Science.
Further information
Leo-III was funded by DFG under grant BE 2501/11-1 (Leo-III), PI: C. Benzmüller
Leo-III is an effective ATP system for HOL with Henkin semantics and choice. It is implemented in Scala; its source code, and that of related projects, is publicly available under BSD-3 license on GitHub. The system accepts all common TPTP input syntax formats, including untyped clause normal form (CNF), untyped and typed first-order logic (FOF and TFF, respectively) and, as primary input format, monomorphic higher-order logic (THF). Additionally, as one of the first higher-order ATP systems, Leo-III upports reasoning in rank-1 polymorphic variants of the above logics (TF1 and TH1 syntax). The prover returns results according to the standardized TPTP SZS ontology and produces a verifiable TPTP-compatible proof certificate, if a proof is found.
Leo-III was identified as one of the most effective (in terms of number of solved problems) and most versatile (in terms of supported logical formalisms) theorem prover to date by the GRUNGE evaluation, see arXiv:1903.02539.
Leo-III won the LTB division of CASC-27! Also, Leo-III ranked second place in the CASC-27's THF division. See also the news article (Luxemburger Wort) and the UL press release.
Further information
Conducted at Dahlem Center of Machine Learning and Robotics of Freie Universität Berlin, joint work with T. Gleißner
MET is a tool for embedding modal logic logic problems into classical higher-order logic represented in TPTP THF format. The input language allows the user to specify the semantics of the desired quantified modal logic and automatically computes the correspondig embedding.
Further information
Conducted at the Individual and Collective Reasoning group of University of Luxembourg, joint work with T. Libal
NAI (for Normative AI) is a framework for normative reasoning. NAI features an annotation-based editor which abstracts over the underlining logical language. It also contains an easily accessible functionality for quality assurance and a transparent analysis of the created formalized document. NAI also supports an approach for assessing the correctness of formalizations via execution of behavioral tests using so-called queries. Lastly, it provides an interface for the creation of such queries and for checking their validity. The architecture of NAI is modular, which allows using different logics and reasoning engines. It also provides an web-based interface, which can be used by other tools in order to reason over the formalized legislation.
NAI is open-source, its source code is freely available at GitHub 3 under GPL-3.0 license. It was awarded with the LexisNexis Best Paper Award of Internationales Rechtsinformatik Symposium (IRIS 2020), in Salzburg, Austria, 2020.
Further informationI completed the advanced training certificate for unversity teaching (Hochschuldidaktisches Lehrzertifikat) of Freie Universität Berlin (Support für die Lehre).
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Interested in writing a bachelors or masters thesis in the context of automated theorem proving or related areas? Feel free to contact me via e-mail.