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Constraint-Based Agents

Author : Alexander Nareyek
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540457461
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Constraint-Based Agents written by Alexander Nareyek and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-06-29 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autonomous agents have become a vibrant research and development topic in recent years attracting activity and attention from various areas. The basic agent concept incorporates proactive autonomous units with goal-directed-behaviour and communication capabilities. The book focuses on autonomous agents that can act in a goal directed manner under real time constraints and incomplete knowledge, being situated in a dynamic environment where resources may be restricted. To satisfy such complex requirements, the author improves, combines, and applies results from areas like planning, constraint programming, and local search. The formal framework developed is evaluated by application to the field of computer games, which fit the problem context very well since most of them are played in real time and provide a highly interactive environment where environmental situations are changing rapidly.

Constraint Satisfaction Techniques for Agent-Based Reasoning

Author : Nicoleta Neagu
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3764373199
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (643 download)

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Book Synopsis Constraint Satisfaction Techniques for Agent-Based Reasoning by : Nicoleta Neagu

Download or read book Constraint Satisfaction Techniques for Agent-Based Reasoning written by Nicoleta Neagu and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-03-30 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constraint satisfaction problems are significant in the domain of automated reasoning for artificial intelligence. They can be applied to the modeling and solving of a wide range of combinatorial applications such as planning, scheduling and resource sharing in a variety of practical domains such as transportation, production, supply-chains, network management and human resource management. In this book we study new techniques for solving constraint satisfaction problems, with a special focus on solution adaptation applied to agent reasoning.

Constraint-based Reasoning

Author : Eugene C. Freuder
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262560757
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (67 download)

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Book Synopsis Constraint-based Reasoning by : Eugene C. Freuder

Download or read book Constraint-based Reasoning written by Eugene C. Freuder and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constraint-based reasoning is an important area of automated reasoning in artificial intelligence, with many applications. These include configuration and design problems, planning and scheduling, temporal and spatial reasoning, defeasible and causal reasoning, machine vision and language understanding, qualitative and diagnostic reasoning, and expert systems. Constraint-Based Reasoning presents current work in the field at several levels: theory, algorithms, languages, applications, and hardware. Constraint-based reasoning has connections to a wide variety of fields, including formal logic, graph theory, relational databases, combinatorial algorithms, operations research, neural networks, truth maintenance, and logic programming. The ideal of describing a problem domain in natural, declarative terms and then letting general deductive mechanisms synthesize individual solutions has to some extent been realized, and even embodied, in programming languages. Contents Introduction, E. C. Freuder, A. K. Mackworth * The Logic of Constraint Satisfaction, A. K. Mackworth * Partial Constraint Satisfaction, E. C. Freuder, R. J. Wallace * Constraint Reasoning Based on Interval Arithmetic: The Tolerance Propagation Approach, E. Hyvonen * Constraint Satisfaction Using Constraint Logic Programming, P. Van Hentenryck, H. Simonis, M. Dincbas * Minimizing Conflicts: A Heuristic Repair Method for Constraint Satisfaction and Scheduling Problems, S. Minton, M. D. Johnston, A. B. Philips, and P. Laird * Arc Consistency: Parallelism and Domain Dependence, P. R. Cooper, M. J. Swain * Structure Identification in Relational Data, R. Dechter, J. Pearl * Learning to Improve Constraint-Based Scheduling, M. Zweben, E. Davis, B. Daun, E. Drascher, M. Deale, M. Eskey * Reasoning about Qualitative Temporal Information, P. van Beek * A Geometric Constraint Engine, G. A. Kramer * A Theory of Conflict Resolution in Planning, Q. Yang A Bradford Book.

Constraint-based Local Search

Author : Pascal Van Hentenryck
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Constraint-based Local Search written by Pascal Van Hentenryck and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 2005 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ubiquity of combinatorial optimization problems in our society is illustrated by the novel application areas for optimization technology, which range from supply chain management to sports tournament scheduling. Over the last two decades, constraint programming has emerged as a fundamental methodology to solve a variety of combinatorial problems, and rich constraint programming languages have been developed for expressing and combining constraints and specifying search procedures at a high level of abstraction. Local search approaches to combinatorial optimization are able to isolate optimal or near-optimal solutions within reasonable time constraints. This book introduces a method for solving combinatorial optimization problems that combines constraint programming and local search, using constraints to describe and control local search, and a programming language, COMET, that supports both modeling and search abstractions in the spirit of constraint programming. After an overview of local search including neighborhoods, heuristics, and metaheuristics, the book presents the architecture and modeling and search components of constraint-based local search and describes how constraint-based local search is supported in COMET. The book describes a variety of applications, arranged by meta-heuristics. It presents scheduling applications, along with the background necessary to understand these challenging problems. The book also includes a number of satisfiability problems, illustrating the ability of constraint-based local search approaches to cope with both satisfiability and optimization problems in a uniform fashion.

Distributed Search by Constrained Agents

Author : Amnon Meisels
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1848000391
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (48 download)

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Book Synopsis Distributed Search by Constrained Agents by : Amnon Meisels

Download or read book Distributed Search by Constrained Agents written by Amnon Meisels and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The well defined model of distributed constraints satisfaction and optimization (DisCSPs/DisCOPs) can serve as the basis for the design and investigation of distributed search algorithms, of protocols and of negotiations and search. This book presents a comprehensive discussion on the field of distributed constraints, its algorithms and its active research areas. The book introduces distributed constraint satisfaction and optimization problems and describes the underlying model.

Distributed Constraint Satisfaction

Author : Makoto Yokoo
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783642640209
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Distributed Constraint Satisfaction written by Makoto Yokoo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-10-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed Constraint Satisfaction gives an overview of Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSPs), adapts related search algorithms and consistency algorithms for applications to multi-agent systems, and consolidates recent research devoted to cooperation in such systems. The techniques introduced are applied to various problems in multi-agent systems. Among the new approaches is a hybrid-type algorithm for weak-commitment search combining backtracking and iterative improvement. Also, an extension of the basic CSP formalization called "Partial CSP" is introduced in order to handle over-constrained CSPs.

Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming - CP 2000

Author : Rina Dechter
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540410538
Total Pages : 573 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (44 download)

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Book Synopsis Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming - CP 2000 by : Rina Dechter

Download or read book Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming - CP 2000 written by Rina Dechter and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2000-09-06 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, CP 2000, held in Singapore in September 2000. The 31 revised full papers and 13 posters presented together with three invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 101 submissions. All current issues of constraint processing, ranging from theoretical and foundational issues to applications in various fields are addressed.

An Introduction to Constraint-Based Temporal Reasoning

Author : Roman Meir
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031015673
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Book Synopsis An Introduction to Constraint-Based Temporal Reasoning by : Roman Meir

Download or read book An Introduction to Constraint-Based Temporal Reasoning written by Roman Meir and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solving challenging computational problems involving time has been a critical component in the development of artificial intelligence systems almost since the inception of the field. This book provides a concise introduction to the core computational elements of temporal reasoning for use in AI systems for planning and scheduling, as well as systems that extract temporal information from data. It presents a survey of temporal frameworks based on constraints, both qualitative and quantitative, as well as of major temporal consistency techniques. The book also introduces the reader to more recent extensions to the core model that allow AI systems to explicitly represent temporal preferences and temporal uncertainty. This book is intended for students and researchers interested in constraint-based temporal reasoning. It provides a self-contained guide to the different representations of time, as well as examples of recent applications of time in AI systems.

Distributed Constraint Problem Solving and Reasoning in Multi-agent Systems

Author : Weixiong Zhang
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 9781586034566
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (345 download)

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Book Synopsis Distributed Constraint Problem Solving and Reasoning in Multi-agent Systems by : Weixiong Zhang

Download or read book Distributed Constraint Problem Solving and Reasoning in Multi-agent Systems written by Weixiong Zhang and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed and multi-agent systems are becoming more and more the focus of attention in artificial intelligence research and have already found their way into many practical applications. An important prerequisite for their success is an ability to flexibly adapt their behavior via intelligent cooperation. Successful reasoning about and within a multiagent system is therefore paramount to achieve intelligent behavior. Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems (DCSPs) and Distributed Constraint Optimization (minimization) Problems (DCOPs) are perhaps ubiquitous in distributed systems in dynamic environments. Many important problems in distributed environments and systems, such as action coordination, task scheduling and resource allocation, can be formulated and solved as DCSPs and DCOPs. Therefore, techniques for solving DCSPs and DCOPs as well as strategies for automated reasoning in distributed systems are indispensable tools in the research areas of distributed and multi-agent systems. They also provide promising frameworks to deal with the increasingly diverse range of distributed real world problems emerging from the fast evolution of communication technologies.The volume is divided in two parts. One part contains papers on distributed constraint problems in multi-agent systems. The other part presents papers on Agents and Automated Reasoning.

Population-Based Approaches to the Resource-Constrained and Discrete-Continuous Scheduling

Author : Ewa Ratajczak-Ropel
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319628933
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Book Synopsis Population-Based Approaches to the Resource-Constrained and Discrete-Continuous Scheduling by : Ewa Ratajczak-Ropel

Download or read book Population-Based Approaches to the Resource-Constrained and Discrete-Continuous Scheduling written by Ewa Ratajczak-Ropel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-21 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses two of the most difficult and computationally intractable classes of problems: discrete resource constrained scheduling, and discrete-continuous scheduling. The first part of the book discusses problems belonging to the first class, while the second part deals with problems belonging to the second class. Both parts together offer valuable insights into the possibility of implementing modern techniques and tools with a view to obtaining high-quality solutions to practical and, at the same time, computationally difficult problems. It offers a valuable source of information for practitioners dealing with the real-world scheduling problems in industry, management and administration. The authors have been working on the respective problems for the last decade, gaining scientific recognition through publications and active participation in the international scientific conferences, and their results are obtained using population-based methods. Dr E. Ratajczk-Ropel explores multiple agent and A-Team concepts, while Dr A. Skakovski focuses on evolutionary algorithms with a particular focus on the population learning paradigm.

Grammatical theory: From transformational grammar to constraint-based approaches (Fifth revised edition)

Author : Stefan Müller
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3961104026
Total Pages : 889 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (611 download)

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Book Synopsis Grammatical theory: From transformational grammar to constraint-based approaches (Fifth revised edition) by : Stefan Müller

Download or read book Grammatical theory: From transformational grammar to constraint-based approaches (Fifth revised edition) written by Stefan Müller and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on 2023-01-23 with total page 889 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces formal grammar theories that play a role in current linguistic theorizing (Phrase Structure Grammar, Transformational Grammar/Government & Binding, Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar, Lexical Functional Grammar, Categorial Grammar, Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Construction Grammar, Tree Adjoining Grammar). The key assumptions are explained and it is shown how the respective theory treats arguments and adjuncts, the active/passive alternation, local reorderings, verb placement, and fronting of constituents over long distances. The analyses are explained with German as the object language. The second part of the book compares these approaches with respect to their predictions regarding language acquisition and psycholinguistic plausibility. The nativism hypothesis, which assumes that humans posses genetically determined innate language-specific knowledge, is critically examined and alternative models of language acquisition are discussed. The second part then addresses controversial issues of current theory building such as the question of flat or binary branching structures being more appropriate, the question whether constructions should be treated on the phrasal or the lexical level, and the question whether abstract, non-visible entities should play a role in syntactic analyses. It is shown that the analyses suggested in the respective frameworks are often translatable into each other. The book closes with a chapter showing how properties common to all languages or to certain classes of languages can be captured.

New Trends in Constraints

Author : Krzysztof R. Apt
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540446540
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (44 download)

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Book Synopsis New Trends in Constraints by : Krzysztof R. Apt

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.

Constraint-Based Agents

Author : Alexander Nareyek
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783540422587
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (225 download)

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Download or read book Constraint-Based Agents written by Alexander Nareyek and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-05-30 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autonomous agents have become a vibrant research and development topic in recent years attracting activity and attention from various areas. The basic agent concept incorporates proactive autonomous units with goal-directed-behaviour and communication capabilities. The book focuses on autonomous agents that can act in a goal directed manner under real time constraints and incomplete knowledge, being situated in a dynamic environment where resources may be restricted. To satisfy such complex requirements, the author improves, combines, and applies results from areas like planning, constraint programming, and local search. The formal framework developed is evaluated by application to the field of computer games, which fit the problem context very well since most of them are played in real time and provide a highly interactive environment where environmental situations are changing rapidly.

Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming - CP98

Author : Michael Maher
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540494812
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming - CP98 written by Michael Maher and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-05-20 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constraints have emerged as the basis of a representational and computational paradigm that draws from many disciplines and can be brought to bear on many problem domains. This volume contains papers dealing with all aspects of c- puting with constraints. In particular, there are several papers on applications of constraints, re?ecting the practical usefulness of constraint programming. The papers were presented at the 1998 International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP’98), held in Pisa, Italy, 26{30 - tober, 1998. It is the fourth in this series of conferences, following conferences in Cassis (France), Cambridge (USA), and Schloss Hagenberg (Austria). We received 115 high quality submissions. In addition, 7 abstracts submissions were not followed by a full paper, hence were not counted as submissions. The program committee selected 29 high quality papers after thorough refereeing by at least 3 experts and further discussion by committee members. We thank the referees and the program committee for the time and e ort spent in reviewing the papers. The program committee invited three speakers: { Joxan Ja ar { Peter Jeavons { Patrick Prosser Their papers are in this volume.

Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming - CP 2001

Author : Toby Walsh
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540455787
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming - CP 2001 written by Toby Walsh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-06-30 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, CP 2001, held in Paphos, Cyprus, in November/December 2001. The 37 revised full papers, 9 innovative applications presentations, and 14 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 135 submissions. All current issues in constraint processing are addressed, ranging from theoretical and foundational issues to advanced and innovative applications in a variety of fields.

Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming -- CP 2011

Author : Jimmy Lee
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 364223786X
Total Pages : 854 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming -- CP 2011 written by Jimmy Lee and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, CP 2011, held in Perugia, Italy, September 12-16, 2011. The 51 revised full papers and 7 short papers presented together with three invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 159 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on algorithms, environments, languages, models and systems, applications such as decision making, resource allocation and agreement technologies.

Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming - CP 2004

Author : Mark Wallace
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540302018
Total Pages : 837 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming - CP 2004 written by Mark Wallace and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-01-12 with total page 837 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 10th International Conference on the Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2003) was held in Toronto, Canada, during September 27 – October 1, 2004. Information about the conference can be found on the Web at http://ai.uwaterloo.ca/~cp2004/ Constraint programming (CP) is about problem modelling, problem solving, programming, optimization, software engineering, databases, visualization, user interfaces, and anything to do with satisfying complex constraints. It reaches into mathematics, operations research, arti?cial intelligence, algorithms, c- plexity, modelling and programming languages, and many aspects of computer science. Moreover, CP is never far from applications, and its successful use in industry and government goes hand in hand with the success of the CP research community. Constraintprogrammingcontinuesto beanexciting,?ourishingandgrowing research?eld,astheannualCPconferenceproceedingsamplywitness.Thisyear, from 158 submissions, we chose 46 to be published in full in the proceedings. Instead of selecting one overall best paper, we picked out four “distinguished” papers – though we were tempted to select at least 12 such papers. In addition we included 16 short papersin the proceedings– these were presentedas posters at CP 2004. This volume includes summaries of the four invited talks of CP 2004. Two speakers from industry were invited. However these were no ordinary industrial representatives,buttwoofthe leadingresearchersinthe CPcommunity:Helmut Simonis of Parc Technologies, until its recent takeover by Cisco Systems; and Jean Francoi ̧ s Puget, Director of Optimization Technology at ILOG. The other two invited speakers are also big movers and shakers in the researchcommunity.