Answer set programming (ASP) is a programming methodology oriented towards combinatorial search problems.  In such a problem, the goal is to find a solution among a large but finite number of possibilities. The idea of ASP came from research on artificial intelligence and computational logic. ASP is a form of declarative programming: an ASP program describes what is counted as a solution to the problem, but does not specify an algorithm for solving it.  Search is performed by sophisticated software systems called answer set solvers. weiterlesen