J.J. Alferes

started with the following statements:

Ad Q1.

People should care about killer applications. Since ASP is already application-oriented, a killer application is needed.

Ad Q2.

ASP is used for several application areas, for which it is well-suited, while it is sometimes also used in areas where constraint solvers (CLP) are better suited (e.g. the 8-queens problem).

Ad Q3.

ASP should be used in conjunction with other systems (e.g. smodels+XSB, DLV+DB, etc.) for full applications. Important issue: Localization (magic sets, reducts etc).

Ad Q5.

Debugging, visualization. In general: Programming tools (he refers to the demo by Thomas Linke on the same day). This is a difficult, but important task.

Ad Q6.

``I don't hope so.''