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onlineSPARC: a Programming Environment for Answer Set Programming

Artificial Intelligence 2018-09-25 v1

Abstract

Recent progress in logic programming (e.g., the development of the Answer Set Programming paradigm) has made it possible to teach it to general undergraduate and even middle/high school students. Given the limited exposure of these students to computer science, the complexity of downloading, installing and using tools for writing logic programs could be a major barrier for logic programming to reach a much wider audience. We developed onlineSPARC, an online answer set programming environment with a self contained file system and a simple interface. It allows users to type/edit logic programs and perform several tasks over programs, including asking a query to a program, getting the answer sets of a program, and producing a drawing/animation based on the answer sets of a program.

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@article{arxiv.1809.08304,
  title  = {onlineSPARC: a Programming Environment for Answer Set Programming},
  author = {Elias Marcopoulos and Yuanlin Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.08304},
  year   = {2018}
}

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Under consideration in Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP)