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About Myself

I am currently in the third year of my PhD at the Technical University of Vienna. Before that I did my Masters degree in Artificial Intelligence at the Free University of Amsterdamn and my Bachelors degree in Mathematics at the Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen.

Research Interests

My research interests include but are not necessarily limited to:

Title Authors Venue
On the Complexity of Sum-of-Products Problems over Semirings Thomas Eiter & Rafael Kiesel AAAI 2021
Reasoning on Multi-Relational Contextual Hierarchies via Answer Set Programming with Algebraic Measures Loris Bozzato, Thomas Eiter & Rafael Kiesel ICLP 2021
ASP(𝓐𝒞): Answer Set Programming with Algebraic Constraints Thomas Eiter & Rafael Kiesel ICLP 2020
Weighted LARS for Quantitative Stream Reasoning Thomas Eiter & Rafael Kiesel ECAI 2020
A Mobile Application for Self-Guided Study of Formal Reasoning David M. Cerna, Rafael Kiesel & Alexandra Dzhiganskaya ThEdu 2019
Preferential Default Reasoning on the Semantic Web Rafael Kiesel, Erman Acar & Stefan Schlobach DL 2018
Analysis of Lamarckian evolution in morphologically evolving robots Milan Jelisavcic, Rafael Kiesel, Kyrre Glette, Evert Haasdijk & A. E. Eiben ECAL 2017
Benefits of lamarckian evolution for morphologically evolving robots Milan Jelisavcic, Rafael Kiesel, Kyrre Glette, Evert Haasdijk & A. E. Eiben GECCO 2017
Name Description
aspmc An efficient algebraic answer set counter.
AXolotl Proof visualization for AXolotl, a logic game.
cppneat A C++ implementation of NEAT, the neural network learning algorithm.
minisat-definitions A small C++ library that uses minisat to extract which variables are defined in terms of a set of input variables.
Title Venue Links
Reasoning on Multi-Relational Contextual Hierarchies via Answer Set Programming with Algebraic Measures ICLP 2021 Slides, Poster
Advances in Efficient Probabilistic Reasoning with Answer Set Semantics SR 2021 Slides
Quantitative and Stream Extensions of ASP ICLP 2021 DC Slides
Efficient Answer Set Counting with aspmc ICLP 2021 PLP Slides
On the Complexity of Sum-of-Products Problems over Semirings AAAI 2021 Slides, Poster
ASP(𝓐𝒞): Answer Set Programming with Algebraic Constraints ICLP 2020 Slides
Quantitative Stream Reasoning with Weighted LARS ECAI 2020 Slides
Quantitative Stream Reasoning with Weighted LARS KR RACES 2020 Slides
Quantitative and Stream Extensions of ASP KR DC 2020 Slides
Weighted LARS and Weighted Automata ESSLLI 2019 Slides, Poster