A Framework for Easing the Development of Applications Embedding Answer
  Set Programming
  Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a well-established declarative problem
solving paradigm which became widely used in AI and recognized as a powerful
tool for knowledge representation and reasoning (KRR), especially for its high
expressiveness and the ability to deal also with incomplete knowledge.
  Recently, thanks to the availability of a number of robust and efficient
implementations, ASP has been increasingly employed in a number of different
domains, and used for the development of industrial-level and enterprise
applications. This made clear the need for proper development tools and
interoperability mechanisms for easing interaction and integration with
external systems in the widest range of real-world scenarios, including mobile
applications and educational contexts.
  In this work we present a framework for integrating the KRR capabilities of
ASP into generic applications. We show the use of the framework by illustrating
proper specializations for some relevant ASP systems over different platforms,
including the mobile setting; furthermore, the potential of the framework for
educational purposes is illustrated by means of the development of several
ASP-based applications.
