ASP Chef grows Mustache to look better

TL;DR

ASP Chef Mustache extends ASP solutions with a Mustache-inspired templating system, integrating interactive data visualization tools to produce rich, structured web-based outputs for various problem domains.

Contribution

It introduces a novel extension of ASP Chef that incorporates a logic-less templating system with advanced features and visualization integrations for enhanced ASP solution presentation.

Findings

Enables interactive visualizations of ASP solutions.

Supports complex formatting and multi-stage expansion in templates.

Demonstrates versatility across data analysis, graph visualization, and scheduling.

Abstract

We present ASP Chef Mustache, an extension of ASP Chef that enhances template-based rendering of ASP solutions using a logic-less templating system inspired by Mustache. Our approach integrates data visualization frameworks such as Tabulator, Chart.js, and vis.js, enabling interactive representations of ASP interpretations as tables, charts, and graphs. Mustache queries in templates support advanced constructs for formatting, sorting, and multi-stage expansion, facilitating the generation of rich, structured outputs. We demonstrate the power of this framework through a series of use cases, including data analysis for the Italian VQR, visualization of blocking sets in graphs, and scheduling problems. The result is a versatile tool for bridging declarative problem solving and modern web-based visual analytics.