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).