Here's the Beef: Answer Set Programming !

  • Authors:
  • Torsten Schaub

  • Affiliations:
  • Institut für Informatik, Universität Potsdam, Potsdam, D-14482

  • Venue:
  • ICLP '08 Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Logic Programming
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

At the occasion of the Third International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning [1] in 1992, Ray Reiter delivered an invited talk entitled "Twelve Years of Nonmonotonic Reasoning Research: Where (and What) Is the beef?" , reflecting the state and future of the research area of Nonmonotonic Reasoning (NMR;[2]).Ray Reiter describes it in [3] as a "flourishing subculture" making many outside researchers "wonder what on earth this stuff is good for." Although he seemed to be rather optimistic about the future of NMR, he nonetheless saw its major contribution on the theoretical side, providing "important insights about, and solutions to, many outstanding problems, not only in AI but in computer science in general." Among them, he lists "Logic Programming implementations of nonmonotonic reasoning"