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.TH CLASP 1 "March  4, 2010"
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.SH NAME
clasp \- a conflict-driven nogood learning answer set solver 
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B clasp
[\fInumber\fR] \fR[\fIoptions\fR]
.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the
.B clasp
command.
.PP
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\fBclasp\fP 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).
.SH 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/>.
.TP
.B \-h, \-\-help
Show summary of options.
.TP
.B \-v, \-\-version
Show version of program.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR gringo (1).
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.SH AUTHOR
clasp was written by Benjamin Kaufmann <kaufmann@cs.uni-potsdam.de>.
.PP
This manual page was written by Thomas Krennwallner <tkren@kr.tuwien.ac.at>,
for the Debian project (and may be used by others).