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SeaLion: An eclipse-based IDE for answer-set programming with advanced debugging support

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 September 2013

PAULA-ANDRA BUSONIU ,
JOHANNES OETSCH ,
JÖRG PÜHRER ,
PETER SKOČOVSKÝ  and
HANS TOMPITS
PAULA-ANDRA BUSONIU
Affiliation:
Technische Universität Wien, Institut für Informationssysteme 184/3, Favoritenstrasse 9-11, A-1040 Vienna, Austria (e-mail: andra.busoniu@gmail.com, aifargonos@gmail.com, oetsch@kr.tuwien.ac.at, puehrer@kr.tuwien.ac.at, tompits@kr.tuwien.ac.at)
JOHANNES OETSCH
Affiliation:
Technische Universität Wien, Institut für Informationssysteme 184/3, Favoritenstrasse 9-11, A-1040 Vienna, Austria (e-mail: andra.busoniu@gmail.com, aifargonos@gmail.com, oetsch@kr.tuwien.ac.at, puehrer@kr.tuwien.ac.at, tompits@kr.tuwien.ac.at)
JÖRG PÜHRER
Affiliation:
Technische Universität Wien, Institut für Informationssysteme 184/3, Favoritenstrasse 9-11, A-1040 Vienna, Austria (e-mail: andra.busoniu@gmail.com, aifargonos@gmail.com, oetsch@kr.tuwien.ac.at, puehrer@kr.tuwien.ac.at, tompits@kr.tuwien.ac.at)
PETER SKOČOVSKÝ
Affiliation:
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, CENTRIA and Departamento de Informatica, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
HANS TOMPITS
Affiliation:
Technische Universität Wien, Institut für Informationssysteme 184/3, Favoritenstrasse 9-11, A-1040 Vienna, Austria (e-mail: andra.busoniu@gmail.com, aifargonos@gmail.com, oetsch@kr.tuwien.ac.at, puehrer@kr.tuwien.ac.at, tompits@kr.tuwien.ac.at)
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Abstract

In this paper, we present SeaLion, an integrated development environment (IDE) for answer-set programming (ASP). SeaLion provides source-code editors for the languages of Gringo and DLV and offers popular amenities like syntax highlighting, syntax checking, code completion, visual program outline, and refactoring functionality. The tool has been realised in the context of a research project whose goal is the development of techniques to support the practical coding process of answer-set programs. In this respect, SeaLion is the first IDE for ASP that provides debugging features that work for real-world answer-set programs and supports the rich languages of modern answer-set solvers. Indeed, SeaLion implements a stepping-based debugging approach that allows the developer to quickly track down programming errors by simply following his or her intuitions on the intended semantics. Besides that, SeaLion supports ASP development using model-driven engineering techniques including domain modelling with extended UML class diagrams and visualisation of answer sets in corresponding instance diagrams. Moreover, customised visualisation as well as visual editing of answer sets is realised by the Kara plugin of SeaLion. Further implemented features are a documentation generator based on the Lana annotation language, support for external solvers, and interoperability with external tools. SeaLion comes as a plugin of the popular Eclipse platform and provides interfaces for future extensions of the IDE.

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Theory and Practice of Logic Programming , Volume 13 , Special Issue 4-5: 29th International Conference on Logic Programming , July 2013 , pp. 657 - 673
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Copyright © 2013 [PAULA-ANDRA BUSONIU, JOHANNES OETSCH, JÖRG PÜHRER, PETER SKOČOVSKÝ and HANS TOMPITS] 

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This work was partially supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) under project P21698.

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