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Author : Moreno Falaschi
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (437 download)
Download or read book Special Issue on Multiparadigm Languages and Constraint Programming written by Moreno Falaschi and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Petra Hofstedt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642173306
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (421 download)
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.
Author : Krzysztof R. Apt
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540446540
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (44 download)
Download or read book New Trends in Constraints written by Krzysztof R. Apt and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-05-15 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Joint ERCIM/Compulog-Net Workshop on New Trends in Constraints held in Paphos, Cyprus, Greece in October 1999. The 12 revised full research papers presented together with four surveys by leading researchers were carefully reviewed. The book is divided in topical sections on constraint propagation and manipulation, constraint programming, and rule-based constraint programming.
Author : Henning Christiansen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540261656
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Constraint Solving and Language Processing written by Henning Christiansen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-05-30 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains selected and thoroughly revised papers plus contributions from invited speakers presented at the First International Workshop on C- straint Solving and Language Processing, held in Roskilde, Denmark, September 1–3, 2004. Constraint Programming and Constraint Solving, in particular Constraint Logic Programming, appear to be a very promising platform, perhaps the most promising present platform, for bringing forward the state of the art in natural language processing, this due to the naturalness in speci?cation and the direct relation to e?cient implementation. Language, in the present context, may - fer to written and spoken language, formal and semiformal language, and even general input data to multimodal and pervasive systems, which can be handled in very much the same ways using constraint programming. The notion of constraints, with slightly di?ering meanings, apply in the ch- acterization of linguistic and cognitive phenomena, in formalized linguistic m- els as well as in implementation-oriented frameworks. Programming techniques for constraint solving have been, and still are, in a period with rapid devel- ment of new e?cient methods and paradigms from which language processing can pro?t. A common metaphor for human language processing is one big c- straintsolvingprocessinwhichthedi?erent(-lyspeci?ed)linguisticandcognitive phases take place in parallel and with mutual cooperation, which ?ts quite well with current constraint programming paradigms.
Author : Francesca Rossi
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080463800
Total Pages : 977 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (84 download)
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
Author : Christian Schulte
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540459456
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Programming Constraint Services written by Christian Schulte and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constraint Programming is an approach for modeling and solving combi- torial problems that has proven successful in many applications. It builds on techniques developed in Arti?cial Intelligence, Logic Programming, and - erations Research. Key techniques are constraint propagation and heuristic search. Constraint Programming is based on an abstraction that decomposes a problem solver into a reusable constraint engine and a declarative program modeling the problem. The constraint engine implements the required pr- agation and search algorithms. It can be realized as a library for a general purpose programming language (e.g. C++), as an extension of an existing language (e.g. Prolog), or as a system with its own dedicated language. The present book is concerned with the architecture and implementation of constraint engines. It presents a new, concurrent architecture that is far superior to the sequential architecture underlying Prolog. The new archit- ture is based on concurrent search with copying and recomputation rather than sequential search with trailing and backtracking. One advantage of the concurrent approach is that it accommodates any search strategy. Furth- more, it considerably simpli?es the implementation of constraint propagation algorithms since it eliminates the need to account for trailing and backtra- ing. The book investigates an expressive generalization of the concurrent - chitecture that accommodates propagation-preserving combinators (known as deep guard combinators) for negation, disjunction, implication, and re- cation of constraint propagators. Such combinators are beyond the scope of Prolog’s technology. In the concurrent approach they can be obtained with a re?ective encapsulation primitive.
Author : Nabil M. Zamel
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Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (372 download)
Download or read book Electra written by Nabil M. Zamel and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multiparadigm languages are languages that are designed to support more than one style of programming. Leda is a strongly-typed multiparadigm programming language that supports imperative, functional, object-oriented, and logic programming. The constraint programming paradigm is a declarative style of programming where the programmer is able to state relationships among some entities and expect the system to maintain the validity of these relationships throughout program execution. The system accomplishes this either by invoking user-defined fixes that impose rigid rules governing the evolution of the entities, or by finding suitable values to be assigned to the constrained entities without violating any active constraint. Constraints, due to their declarative semantics, are suitable for the direct mapping of the characteristics of a number of mechanisms including: consistency checks, constraint-directed search, and constraint-enforced reevaluation, among others. This makes constraint languages the most appropriate languages for the implementation of a large number of applications such as scheduling, planning, resource allocation, simulation, and graphical user interfaces. The semantics of constraints cannot be easily emulated by other constructs in the paradigms that are offered by the language Leda. However, the constraint paradigm does not provide any general control constructs. The lack of general control constructs impedes this paradigm's ability to naturally express a large number of problems. This dissertation presents the language Electra, which integrates the constraint paradigm into the language Leda by creating a unified construct that provides the ability to express the conventional semantics of constraints with some extensions. Due to the flexibility of this construct, the programmer is given the choice of either stating how a constraint is to be satisfied or delegating that task to the constraint-satisfier. The concept of providing the programmer with the ability to express system-maintained relations, which is the basic characteristic of constraints, provided a motivation for enhancing other paradigms with similar abilities. The functional paradigm is extended by adding to it the mechanism of condition-based dispatching which is similar to argument pattern-matching. The object-oriented paradigm is extended by allowing feature exclusion which is a form of inheritance exception. This dissertation claims that the integration provided by the language Electra will enable Leda programmers to reap the benefits of the paradigm of constraints while overcoming its limitations.
Author : Maurizio Gabbrielli
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540319476
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Logic Programming written by Maurizio Gabbrielli and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-10-10 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Logic and Programming, ICLP 2005, held in Barcelona, Spain, in October 2005. The 25 revised full papers and 15 revised poster papers presented together with 4 invited papers and 7 abstracts of a poster session of a doctoral consortium were carefully reviewed and selected from 104 submissions. The papers cover all issues of current research in logic programming. Extra attention is given to novel applications of logic programming and work providing novel integrations of different areas.
Author : Jean-Charles Régin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540246649
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems written by Jean-Charles Régin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-05-17 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the proceedings of the First International Conference on IntegrationofAIandORTechniquesinConstraintProgrammingforCombina- rialOptimisation Problems.This new conferencefollows the seriesof CP-AI-OR International Workshops on Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimisation Problems held in Ferrara (1999), Paderborn (2000), Ashford (2001), Le Croisic (2002), and Montreal (2003). The success of the previous workshops has demonstrated that CP-AI-OR is bec- ing a major forum for exchanging ideas and methodologiesfrom both ?elds. The aim of this new conference is to bring together researchersfrom AI and OR, and to give them the opportunity to show how the integration of techniques from AI and OR can lead to interesting results on large scale and complex problems. The integration of techniques from Arti?cial Intelligence and Operations - search has provided e?ective algorithms for tackling complex and large scale combinatorial problems with signi?cant improvements in terms of e?ciency, scalability and optimality. The bene?t of this integration has been shown in applications such as hoist scheduling, rostering, dynamic scheduling and vehicle routing. At the programming and modelling levels, most constraint languages embed OR techniques to reason about collections of constraints, so-calledglobal constraints. Some languages also provide support for hybridization allowing the programmer to build new integrated algorithms. The resulting multi-paradigm programmingframeworkcombines the ?exibility and modelling facilities of C- straint Programming with the special purpose and e?cient methods from - erations Research
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Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book New Trends in Constraints written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Veronica Dahl
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540363882
Total Pages : 417 pages
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Download or read book Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages written by Veronica Dahl and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages, PADL 2003, held in New Orleans, LA, USA, in January 2003. The 23 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 57 submissions. All current aspects of declarative programming are addressed.
Author : Anind Dey
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540318909
Total Pages : 585 pages
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Download or read book Modeling and Using Context written by Anind Dey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-07-11 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Context is of crucial importance for research and applications in many disciplines, as evidenced by many workshops, symposia, seminars, and conferences on specific aspects of context. The International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT), the oldest conference series focusing on context, provides a unique interdisciplinary emphasis, bringing together participants from a wide range of disciplines, including artificial intelligence, cognitive science, computer science, linguistics, organizational science, philosophy, psychology, ubiquitous computing, and application areas such as medicine and law, to discuss and report on context-related research and projects. Previous CONTEXT conferences were held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1997), Trento, Italy (1999, LNCS 1688), Dundee, UK (2001, LNCS 2116), and Palo Alto, USA (2003, LNCS 2680). CONTEXT 2005 was held in Paris, France during July 5–8, 2005. There was a strong response to the CONTEXT 2005 Call for Papers, with 120 submissions received. A careful review process assessed all submissions, with each paper first reviewed by the international Program Committee, and then reviewer discussions were initiated as needed to assure that the final decisions carefully considered all aspects of each paper. Reviews of submissions by the Program Chairs were supervised independently and anonymously, to assure fair consideration of all work. Out of the 120 submissions, 23 were selected as full papers for oral presentation, and 20 were selected as full papers for poster presentation. These outstanding papers are presented in this proceedings.
Author : Krzysztof Apt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521825832
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (258 download)
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 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upper-division textbook covering foundations of constraint programming and applications to scheduling, optimisation etc.
Author : Paul Hudak
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540774424
Total Pages : 342 pages
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Download or read book Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages written by Paul Hudak and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-12-20 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, complete with online files and updates, covers a hugely important area of study in computing. It constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages, PADL 2008, held in San Francisco, CA, USA, in January 2008. The 20 revised full papers along with the abstract of 1 invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. The papers address all current aspects of declarative programming.
Author : Andy King
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540787682
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation written by Andy King and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-03-18 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation, LOPSTR 2007, held in Kongens Lyngby, Denmark, August 23-24, 2007 colocated with SAS 2007. The 13 revised full papers presented together with one invited talk were carefully selected and revised from 30 submissions during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers are organized in topical sections on program termination, program transformation, constraint solving and analysis as well as software engineering.
Author : Brian Mayoh
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642859836
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (428 download)
Download or read book Constraint Programming written by Brian Mayoh and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constraint programming is like an octopus spreading its tentacles into databases, operations research, artificial intelligence, and many other areas. The concept of constraint programming was introduced in artificial intelligence and graphics in the 1960s and 1970s. Now the related techniques are used and studied in many fields of computing. Different aspects of constraint processing are investigated in theoretical computer science, logic programming, knowledge representation, operations research, and related application domains. Constraint programming has been included in the lists of related topics of many conferences. Nevertheless, only in 1993 were the first forums held, devoted as a whole to this field of knowledge. These were the First Workshop on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (PPCP'93) which was held in Newport, Rhode Island, USA, April 28-30, the International Workshop on Constraint Processing (at CSAM'93) held in St. Petersburg, Russia, July 20-21, and the NATO Advanced Study Institute (NATO AS!) on Constraint Programming held in Parnu, Estonia, August 13-24. NATO A Sis are aimed to be schools bringing together leading researchers and practitioners from industry and academia in some area of knowledge to provide a concise picture of the work done and results obtained by different groups. This is intended for dissemination of advanced knowledge not yet taught regularly in of new topics university. However, ASis must also encourage the introduction into university curricula as well as foster international scientific contacts.
Author : Peter Van Roy
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540250794
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Multiparadigm Programming in Mozart/Oz written by Peter Van Roy and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed extended postproceedings of the Second International Mozart/OZ Conference, MOZ 2004, held in Charleroi, Belgium in October 2004. Besides the 23 papers taken from the workshop, 2 invited papers were especially written for presentation in this book. The papers are organized in topical sections on language-based computer security, computer science education, software engineering, human-computer interfaces and the Web, distributed programming, grammars and natural language, constraint programming, and constraint applications.
