Strategic directions in constraint programming

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Mapping and geovisualization

We propose a new grouping operator for logic programs based on the bagof predicate. The novelty of our proposal lies in the use of modes, which allows us to prove properties regarding groundness of computed answer substitutions and termination. Moreover, modes allow us to define a somewhat declarative semantics for it and to relax some rather unpractical constraints on variable occurrences while retaining a straightforward semantics