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Handbook of Constraint Programming

Author : Francesca Rossi
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080463800
Total Pages : 977 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Constraint Programming written by Francesca Rossi and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2006-08-18 with total page 977 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constraint programming is a powerful paradigm for solving combinatorial search problems that draws on a wide range of techniques from artificial intelligence, computer science, databases, programming languages, and operations research. Constraint programming is currently applied with success to many domains, such as scheduling, planning, vehicle routing, configuration, networks, and bioinformatics.The aim of this handbook is to capture the full breadth and depth of the constraint programming field and to be encyclopedic in its scope and coverage. While there are several excellent books on constraint programming, such books necessarily focus on the main notions and techniques and cannot cover also extensions, applications, and languages. The handbook gives a reasonably complete coverage of all these lines of work, based on constraint programming, so that a reader can have a rather precise idea of the whole field and its potential. Of course each line of work is dealt with in a survey-like style, where some details may be neglected in favor of coverage. However, the extensive bibliography of each chapter will help the interested readers to find suitable sources for the missing details. Each chapter of the handbook is intended to be a self-contained survey of a topic, and is written by one or more authors who are leading researchers in the area.The intended audience of the handbook is researchers, graduate students, higher-year undergraduates and practitioners who wish to learn about the state-of-the-art in constraint programming. No prior knowledge about the field is necessary to be able to read the chapters and gather useful knowledge. Researchers from other fields should find in this handbook an effective way to learn about constraint programming and to possibly use some of the constraint programming concepts and techniques in their work, thus providing a means for a fruitful cross-fertilization among different research areas.The handbook is organized in two parts. The first part covers the basic foundations of constraint programming, including the history, the notion of constraint propagation, basic search methods, global constraints, tractability and computational complexity, and important issues in modeling a problem as a constraint problem. The second part covers constraint languages and solver, several useful extensions to the basic framework (such as interval constraints, structured domains, and distributed CSPs), and successful application areas for constraint programming.- Covers the whole field of constraint programming- Survey-style chapters- Five chapters on applications

Principles of Constraint Programming

Author : Krzysztof Apt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139438700
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Principles of Constraint Programming written by Krzysztof Apt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-28 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constraints are everywhere: most computational problems can be described in terms of restrictions imposed on the set of possible solutions, and constraint programming is a problem-solving technique that works by incorporating those restrictions in a programming environment. It draws on methods from combinatorial optimisation and artificial intelligence, and has been successfully applied in a number of fields from scheduling, computational biology, finance, electrical engineering and operations research through to numerical analysis. This textbook for upper-division students provides a thorough and structured account of the main aspects of constraint programming. The author provides many worked examples that illustrate the usefulness and versatility of this approach to programming, as well as many exercises throughout the book that illustrate techniques, test skills and extend the text. Pointers to current research, extensive historical and bibliographic notes, and a comprehensive list of references will also be valuable to professionals in computer science and artificial intelligence.

Abstract Domains in Constraint Programming

Author : Marie Pelleau
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0081004648
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Abstract Domains in Constraint Programming written by Marie Pelleau and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constraint Programming aims at solving hard combinatorial problems, with a computation time increasing in practice exponentially. The methods are today efficient enough to solve large industrial problems, in a generic framework. However, solvers are dedicated to a single variable type: integer or real. Solving mixed problems relies on ad hoc transformations. In another field, Abstract Interpretation offers tools to prove program properties, by studying an abstraction of their concrete semantics, that is, the set of possible values of the variables during an execution. Various representations for these abstractions have been proposed. They are called abstract domains. Abstract domains can mix any type of variables, and even represent relations between the variables. In this work, we define abstract domains for Constraint Programming, so as to build a generic solving method, dealing with both integer and real variables. We also study the octagons abstract domain, already defined in Abstract Interpretation. Guiding the search by the octagonal relations, we obtain good results on a continuous benchmark. We also define our solving method using Abstract Interpretation techniques, in order to include existing abstract domains. Our solver, AbSolute, is able to solve mixed problems and use relational domains. - Exploits the over-approximation methods to integrate AI tools in the methods of CP - Exploits the relationships captured to solve continuous problems more effectively - Learn from the developers of a solver capable of handling practically all abstract domains

Constraint-Based Scheduling

Author : Philippe Baptiste
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461514797
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book Constraint-Based Scheduling written by Philippe Baptiste and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constraint Programming is a problem-solving paradigm that establishes a clear distinction between two pivotal aspects of a problem: (1) a precise definition of the constraints that define the problem to be solved and (2) the algorithms and heuristics enabling the selection of decisions to solve the problem. It is because of these capabilities that Constraint Programming is increasingly being employed as a problem-solving tool to solve scheduling problems. Hence the development of Constraint-Based Scheduling as a field of study. The aim of this book is to provide an overview of the most widely used Constraint-Based Scheduling techniques. Following the principles of Constraint Programming, the book consists of three distinct parts: The first chapter introduces the basic principles of Constraint Programming and provides a model of the constraints that are the most often encountered in scheduling problems. Chapters 2, 3, 4, and 5 are focused on the propagation of resource constraints, which usually are responsible for the "hardness" of the scheduling problem. Chapters 6, 7, and 8 are dedicated to the resolution of several scheduling problems. These examples illustrate the use and the practical efficiency of the constraint propagation methods of the previous chapters. They also show that besides constraint propagation, the exploration of the search space must be carefully designed, taking into account specific properties of the considered problem (e.g., dominance relations, symmetries, possible use of decomposition rules). Chapter 9 mentions various extensions of the model and presents promising research directions.

Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming

Author : Helmut Simonis
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030584755
Total Pages : 984 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming written by Helmut Simonis and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-06 with total page 984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, CP 2020, held in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, in September 2020. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 55 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 122 submissions. They deal with all aspects of computing with constraints including theory, algorithms, environments, languages, models, systems, and applications such as decision making, resource allocation, scheduling, configuration, and planning. The papers were organized according to the following topics/tracks: technical track; application track; and CP and data science and machine learning.

Essentials of Constraint Programming

Author : Thom Frühwirth
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3662051389
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Essentials of Constraint Programming written by Thom Frühwirth and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of constraints had its scientific and commercial breakthrough in the 1990s. Programming with constraints makes it possible to model and specify problems with uncertain, incomplete information and to solve combi natorial problems, as they are abundant in industry and commerce, such as scheduling, planning, transportation, resource allocation, layout, design, and analysis. This book is a short, concise, and complete presentation of constraint programming and reasoning, covering theoretical foundations, algorithms, implementations, examples, and applications. It is based on more than a decade of experience in teaching and research about this subject. This book is intended primarily for graduate students, researchers, and practitioners in diverse areas of computer science and related fields, including programming languages, computational logic, symbolic computation, and ar tificial intelligence. The book is complemented by a web-page with teaching material, software, links, and more. We take the reader on a step-by-step journey through the world of constraint-based programming and constraint reasoning. Feel free to join in ... Acknowledgements Thorn thanks his wife Andrea and his daughter Anna - for everything. He dedicates his contribution to the book to the memory of his mother, Grete. Slim thanks his wife N abila and his daughters Shirine and Amira for their ongoing support and patience.

Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming

Author : J. Christopher Beck
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319661582
Total Pages : 750 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming written by J. Christopher Beck and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 23nd International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, CP 2017, held in Melbourne, Australia from August 28, 2017 until September 1, 2017. The conference is colocated with the 20th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT 2017) and the 33rd International Conference on Logic Programming. The 46 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 115 submissions. The scope of the contributions includes all aspects of computing with constraints, including theory, algorithms, environments, languages, models, systems, and applications such as decision making, resource al location, scheduling, configuration, and planning. The papers are grouped into the following tracks: technical track; application track; machine learning & CP track; operations research & CP track; satisfiability & CP track, test and verification & CP track; journal & sister conference track.

Constraint Satisfaction in Logic Programming

Author : Pascal Van Hentenryck
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Constraint Satisfaction in Logic Programming written by Pascal Van Hentenryck and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1989 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tackles classic problems from operations research and circuit design using a logic programming language embedding consistency techniques, a paradigm emerging from artificial intelligence research. Van Hentenryck proposes a new approach to solving discrete combinatorial problems using these techniques.Logic programming serves as a convenient language for stating combinatorial problems, but its "generate and test" paradigm leads to inefficient programs. Van Hentenryck's approach preserves one of the most useful features of logic programming - the duality of its semantics - yet allows a short development time for the programs while preserving most of the efficiency of special purpose programs written in a procedural language.Embedding consistency techniques in logic programming allows for ease and flexibility of programming and short development time because constraint propagation and tree-search programming are abstracted away from the user. It also enables logic programs to be executed efficiently as consistency techniques permit an active use of constraints to remove combinations of values that cannot appear in a solution Van Hentenryck presents a comprehensive overview of this new approach from its theoretical foundations to its design and implementation, including applications to real life combinatorial problems.The ideas introduced in "Constraint Satisfaction in Logic Programming "have been used successfully to solve more than a dozen practical problems in operations research and circuit design, including disjunctive scheduling, warehouse location, cutting stock car sequencing, and microcode labeling problems.Pascal Van Hentenryck is a member of the research staff at the European Computer Industry Research Centre. "Constraint Satisfaction in Logic Programming" is based on research for the Centre's CHIP project. As an outgrowth of this project, a new language (CHIP) that will include consistency techniques has been developed for commercial use. The book is included in the Logic Programming series edited by Ehud Shapiro.

Constraint Programming Languages

Author : William Leler
Publisher : Addison Wesley Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Constraint Programming Languages written by William Leler and published by Addison Wesley Publishing Company. This book was released on 1988 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Constraint Processing

Author : Rina Dechter
Publisher : Morgan Kaufmann
ISBN 13 : 1558608907
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (586 download)

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Download or read book Constraint Processing written by Rina Dechter and published by Morgan Kaufmann. This book was released on 2003-05-05 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constraint reasoning has matured over the last three decades with contributions from a diverse community of researchers in artificial intelligence, databases and programming languages, operations research, management science, and applied mathematics. In Constraint Processing, Rina Dechter synthesizes these contributions, as well as her own significant work, to provide the first comprehensive examination of the theory that underlies constraint processing algorithms.

Ant Colony Optimization and Constraint Programming

Author : Christine Solnon
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118618890
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (186 download)

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Download or read book Ant Colony Optimization and Constraint Programming written by Christine Solnon and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-03-04 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ant colony optimization is a metaheuristic which has been successfully applied to a wide range of combinatorial optimization problems. The author describes this metaheuristic and studies its efficiency for solving some hard combinatorial problems, with a specific focus on constraint programming. The text is organized into three parts. The first part introduces constraint programming, which provides high level features to declaratively model problems by means of constraints. It describes the main existing approaches for solving constraint satisfaction problems, including complete tree search approaches and metaheuristics, and shows how they can be integrated within constraint programming languages. The second part describes the ant colony optimization metaheuristic and illustrates its capabilities on different constraint satisfaction problems. The third part shows how the ant colony may be integrated within a constraint programming language, thus combining the expressive power of constraint programming languages, to describe problems in a declarative way, and the solving power of ant colony optimization to efficiently solve these problems.

Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming

Author : Peter J. Stuckey
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540859578
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming written by Peter J. Stuckey and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-08-28 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2008) held in Sydney, Australia, September 14–18, 2008. The conference was held in conjunction with the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2008) and the International Conference on Knowledge Representation and R- soning (KR 2008). Information about the conference can be found at the w- sitehttp://www. unimelb. edu. au/cp2008/. Held annually, the CP conference series is the premier international conference on constraint programming. The conference focuses on all aspects of computing with constraints. The CP conf- ence series is organized by the Association for Constraint Programming (ACP). Information about the conferences in the series can be found on the Web at http://www. cs. ualberta. ca/~ai/cp/. Information about ACP can be found athttp://www. a4cp. org/. CP 2008 included two calls for contributions: a call for research papers, - scribing novel contributions in the ?eld, and a call for application papers, - scribing applications of constraint technology. For the ?rst time authors could directly submit short papers for consideration by the committee. The research track received 84 long submissions and 21 short submissions and the application track received 15 long submissions. Each paper received at least three reviews, which the authors had the opportunity to see and to react to, before the papers and their reviews were discussed extensively by the members of the Program Committee.

Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming

Author : Vijay Saraswat
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262193610
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (936 download)

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Book Synopsis Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming by : Vijay Saraswat

Download or read book Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming written by Vijay Saraswat and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constraint programming aims at supporting a wide range of complex applications, which are often modeled naturally in terms of constraints. Early work, in the 1960s and 1970s, made use of constraints in computer graphics, user interfaces, and artificial intelligence. Such work introduced a declarative component in otherwise-procedural systems to reduce the development effort.

Constraint Solving and Planning with Picat

Author : Neng-Fa Zhou
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319258834
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book Constraint Solving and Planning with Picat written by Neng-Fa Zhou and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-11-07 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces a new logic-based multi-paradigm programming language that integrates logic programming, functional programming, dynamic programming with tabling, and scripting, for use in solving combinatorial search problems, including CP, SAT, and MIP (mixed integer programming) based solver modules, and a module for planning that is implemented using tabling. The book is useful for undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and practitioners.

Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming - CP 2003

Author : Francesca Rossi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540202021
Total Pages : 1024 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming - CP 2003 written by Francesca Rossi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003-09-24 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, CP 2003, held in Kinsale, Ireland in September/October 2003. The 48 revised full papers and 34 revised short papers presented together with 4 invited papers and 40 abstracts of contributions to the CP 2003 doctoral program were carefully reviewed and selected from 181 submissions. A wealth of recent results in computing with constraints is addressed ranging from foundational and methodological issues to solving real-world problems in a variety of application fields.

Constraint Logic Programming using Eclipse

Author : Krzysztof R. Apt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139460862
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Constraint Logic Programming using Eclipse written by Krzysztof R. Apt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-12-21 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constraint logic programming lies at the intersection of logic programming, optimisation and artificial intelligence. It has proved a successful tool in many areas including production planning, transportation scheduling, numerical analysis and bioinformatics. Eclipse is one of the leading software systems that realise its underlying methodology. Eclipse is exploited commercially by Cisco, and is freely available and used for teaching and research in over 500 universities. This book has a two-fold purpose. It's an introduction to constraint programming, appropriate for one-semester courses for upper undergraduate or graduate students in computer science or for programmers wishing to master the practical aspects of constraint programming. By the end of the book, the reader will be able to understand and write constraint programs that solve complex problems. Second, it provides a systematic introduction to the Eclipse system through carefully-chosen examples that guide the reader through the language and illustrate its power, versatility and utility.

Multiparadigm Constraint Programming Languages

Author : Petra Hofstedt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642173306
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book Multiparadigm Constraint Programming Languages written by Petra Hofstedt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Programming languages are often classified according to their paradigms, e.g. imperative, functional, logic, constraint-based, object-oriented, or aspect-oriented. A paradigm characterizes the style, concepts, and methods of the language for describing situations and processes and for solving problems, and each paradigm serves best for programming in particular application areas. Real-world problems, however, are often best implemented by a combination of concepts from different paradigms, because they comprise aspects from several realms, and this combination is more comfortably realized using multiparadigm programming languages. This book deals with the theory and practice of multiparadigm constraint programming languages. The author first elaborates on programming paradigms and languages, constraints, and the merging of programming concepts which yields multiparadigm (constraint) programming languages. In the second part the author inspects two concrete approaches on multiparadigm constraint programming – the concurrent constraint functional language CCFL, which combines the functional and the constraint-based paradigms and allows the description of concurrent processes; and a general framework for multiparadigm constraint programming and its implementation, Meta-S. The book is appropriate for researchers and graduate students in the areas of programming and artificial intelligence.