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In the object-oriented world, much effort is spent into the development of dedicated tools to ease programming and to prevent programming errors. Recently, the techniques of model-driven engineering (MDE) have been proven especially valuable to manage the complexity of modern software systems during the software development process. In the world of answer-set programming (ASP), the situation is different. Much effort is invested into the development of efficient solvers, but the pragmatics of programming itself has not received much attention and more tool support to ease the actual programming phase would be desirable. To address this issue, we introduce the tool VIDEAS which graphically supports the partial specification of answer-set programs, applying technologies provided by MDE.
This research has been partially supported by the the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) under grant P21698 and the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) under grant ICT10-018.
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Oetsch, J., Pührer, J., Seidl, M., Tompits, H., Zwickl, P. (2011). VIDEAS: A Development Tool for Answer-Set Programs Based on Model-Driven Engineering Technology. In: Delgrande, J.P., Faber, W. (eds) Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning. LPNMR 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6645. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20895-9_45
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