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Quo Vadis Answer Set Programming?

Past, Present, and Future

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We discuss the development, current state and the future of Answer Set Programming, making predictions that are not necessarily accurate.

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Marek, V.W. (2008). Quo Vadis Answer Set Programming?. In: Garcia de la Banda, M., Pontelli, E. (eds) Logic Programming. ICLP 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5366. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89982-2_14

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