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Yannis Dimopoulos

pointed out his general view: ASP is a CLP language; in particular LP with SAT and minimality. Competitors are identified as SAT and constraint programming. The main weak points for ASP is the lack of debuggers and programming tools.

ASP needs to exploit the relation to deductive databases and to inductive logic programming (e.g., bioinformatics). All applications where minimality comes into play are important. Agreement with previous panelists that 8-queens is not well-suited as ASP application, because there is no minimality involved.

A bad point is that an ``LP language" is not learned understood by many people. In contrast, CP networks are easy to understand with ``standard education".



Stefan Woltran 2005-08-22