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Summary and Impression

The panel on ``Potential Areas for the Use of ASP'' considered and deepened a number of issues, which already have become apparent in the two previously held panels. In particular, the question for ``killer application'' was once more central. On the other hand, it was addressed that sometimes ASP is used for problems where other programming languages are better suited. However, the suggestions how to use ASP still show a broad application range. As well, there was a certain focus on discussing which particular directions ASP should take in the future, in particular pointing out the need for debugging methods which lack both theoretical foundations and sophisticated practical realizations.

With an audience of about 50 people this panel definitely was a remarkable success, since many experts from other fields in AI attended the panel. Therefore this event significantly contributed to the Working Group's goal to make ASP well known in the scientific community.



Stefan Woltran 2005-08-22