NAME

       clasp - a conflict-driven nogood learning answer set solver

SYNOPSIS

       clasp [number] [options]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the clasp command.

       clasp  is  an answer set solver for (extended) normal logic programs. It combines the high-level modeling
       capacities of answer set programming (ASP) with state-of-the-art techniques  from  the  area  of  Boolean
       constraint  solving.  The  primary clasp algorithm relies on conflict-driven nogood learning, a technique
       that proved very successful for satisfiability checking (SAT). Unlike other learning ASP  solvers,  clasp
       does  not  rely  on legacy software, such as a SAT solver or any other existing ASP solver. Rather, clasp
       has been genuinely developed for answer set solving based on conflict-driven nogood learning.  clasp  can
       be applied as an ASP solver (on LPARSE output format), as a SAT solver (on simplified DIMACS/CNF format),
       or as a PB solver (on OPB format).

OPTIONS

       These  programs  follow  the  usual  GNU  command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes
       (`-').    A   summary   of   options   is   included   below.    For   a   complete   description,    see
       <http://www.potassco.org/clasp/>.

       -h, --help
              Show summary of options.

       -v, --version
              Show version of program.

SEE ALSO

       gringo(1).

AUTHOR

       clasp was written by Benjamin Kaufmann <kaufmann@cs.uni-potsdam.de>.

       This  manual page was written by Thomas Krennwallner <tkren@kr.tuwien.ac.at>, for the Debian project (and
       may be used by others).

                                                 March  4, 2010                                         CLASP(1)