What is answer set programming?

  • Authors:
  • Vladimir Lifschitz

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

  • Venue:
  • AAAI'08 Proceedings of the 23rd national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 3
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Answer set programming (ASP) is a form of declarative programming oriented towards difficult search problems. As an outgrowth of research on the use of nonmonotonic reasoning in knowledge representation, it is particularly useful in knowledge-intensive applications. ASP programs consist of rules that look like Prolog rules, but the computational mechanisms used in ASP are different: they are based on the ideas that have led to the creation of fast satisfiability solvers for propositional logic.