Answer set programming at a glance

Gerhard Brewka, Thomas Eiter, Miroslaw Truszczyński

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Abstract

Can solving hard computational problems be made easy? If we restrict the scope of the question to computational problems that can be stated in terms of constraints over binary domains, and if we understand "easy" as "using a simple and intuitive modeling language that comes with software for processing programs in the language," then the answer is Yes! Answer Set Programming (ASP, for short) fits the bill. While already well represented at research conferences and workshops, ASP has been around for barely more than a decade. Its origins, however, go back a long time; it is an outcome of years of research in knowledge representation, logic programming, and constraint satisfaction-areas that sought and studied declarative languages to model domain knowledge, as well as general-purpose computational tools for processing programs and theories that represent problem specifications in these languages. ASP borrows from each of these areas, all the time aiming.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)93-103
Number of pages11
JournalCommunications of the ACM
Volume54
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2011

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Computer Science

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