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Answer set programming at a glance

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Abstract

The motivation and key concepts behind answer set programming---a promising approach to declarative problem solving.

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Communications of the ACM  Volume 54, Issue 12
December 2011
121 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/2043174
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