Principles and Practice of Constraint Programing-CP 2013: 19th International Conference, CP 2013, Uppsala, Sweden, September 16-20, 2013, Proceedings

ISBN-13: 9783642406263 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 898 str.

Christian Schulte

Opis

This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2013), held in Uppsala, Sweden, in September 2013. The 61 revised papers presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully selected from 138 submissions. The scope of the conference is on all aspects of computing with constraints, including: theory, algorithms, environments, languages, models and systems, applications such as decision making, resource allocation, and agreement technologies.

Spis treści

Invited Talks.- Optimization for Policy Making: The Cornerstone for an Integrated Approach.- Answer Set Programming: Boolean Constraint Solving for Knowledge Representation and Reasoning.- Those Who Cannot Remember the Past Are Condemned to Repeat It.- Invited Public Lecture.- Decide Different!.- Invited System Presentation.- The Objective-CP Optimization System.- Best Technical Track Paper.- Parallel Discrepancy-Based Search.- Best Application Track Paper.- Bin Packing with Linear Usage Costs – An Application to Energy in Data Centres.- Best Student Paper.- Filtering At Most N Value with Difference Constraints: Application to the Shift Minimisation Personnel Task Scheduling Problem.- Technical Track Papers.- A Parametric Approach for Smaller and Better Encodings of Cardinality Constraints.- To Encode or to Propagate? The Best Choice for Each Constraint in SAT.- Automated Symmetry Breaking and Model Selection in Conjure.- Improving WPM2 for (Weighted) Partial MaxSAT.- MinSAT versus MaxSAT for Optimization Problems.- Adaptive Parameterized Consistency.- Global Inverse Consistency for Interactive Constraint Satisfaction.- Counting Spanning Trees to Guide Search in Constrained Spanning Tree Problems.- On the Reduction of the CSP Dichotomy Conjecture to Digraphs.- A Scalable Approximate Model Counter.- Dominance Driven Search.- Tractable Combinations of Global Constraints.- Postponing Optimization to Speed Up MAXSAT Solving.- Dead-End Elimination for Weighted CSP.- Solving Weighted CSPs by Successive Relaxations.- Constraint-Based Program Reasoning with Heaps and Separation.- Model Combinators for Hybrid Optimization.- Modelling Destructive Assignments.- An Improved Search Algorithm for Min-Perturbation.- Explaining Propagators for Edge-Valued Decision Diagrams.- A Simple and Effective Decomposition for the Multidimensional Bin packing Constraint.- Maintaining Soft Arc Consistencies in BnB-ADOPT+ during Search.- Solving String Constraints: The Case for Constraint Programming.- Blowing Holes in Various Aspects of Computational Problems, with Applications to Constraint Satisfaction.- Solving QBF with Free Variables.- Globalizing Constraint Models.- A New Propagator for Two-Layer Neural Networks in Empirical Model Learning.- Bandit-Based Search for Constraint Programming.-Focused Random Walk with Configuration Checking and Break Minimum for Satisfiability.- Multi-Objective Constraint Optimization with Tradeoffs.- Multidimensional Bin Packing Revisited.- A Parametric Propagator for Discretely Convex Pairs of Sum Constraints.- Breaking Symmetry with Different Orderings.-Time-Table Extended-Edge-Finding for the Cumulative Constraint.- Revisiting the Cardinality Reasoning for Bin Packing Constraint.-Value Interchangeability in Scenario Generation.-Embarrassingly Parallel Search.-Multi-Objective Large Neighborhood Search.- Scheduling Optional Tasks with Explanation.- Residential Demand Response under Uncertainty.- Lifting Structural Tractability to CSP with Global Constraints.- Empirical Study of the Behavior of Conflict Analysis in CDCL Solvers.- Primal and Dual Encoding from Applications into Quantified Boolean Formulas.-Asynchronous Forward Bounding Revisited.- Optimizing STR Algorithms with Tuple Compression.- Application Track Papers.- Describing and Generating Solutions for the EDF Unit Commitment Problem with the Model Seeker.-Solving the Agricultural Land Allocation Problem by Constraint-Based Local Search.-Constraint-Based Approaches for Balancing Bike Sharing Systems.- Constraint Based Computation of Periodic Orbits of Chaotic Dynamical Systems.-Laser Cutting Path Planning Using CP.-Atom Mapping with Constraint Programming.-Beyond Feasibility: CP Usage in Constrained-Random Functional Hardware -Verification.-Stochastic Local Search Based Channel Assignment in Wireless Mesh Networks.-Automatic Generation and Delivery of Multiple-Choice Math Quizzes. Constrained Wine Blending.- The Berth Allocation and Quay Crane Assignment Problem Using a CP Approach.

O autorze

Dr. phil. Dr. jur. Christian Schulte, M.A. studierte Rechtswissenschaften, Politikwissenschaft und Germanistik, war nach der Referendarzeit zunächst als Rechtsanwalt tätig und ist seit 1999 Richter im Handelsregister des AG Charlottenburg. Er verfügt u.a. über eine jahrelange Erfahrung als Prüfer im Assessorexamen sowie als Dozent in der Notarfortbildung mit den Arbeitsschwerpunkten Handels-, Gesellschafts- und Europarecht. Regelmäßig führt er im Rahmen der Referendarausbildung Coaching -Veranstaltungen zur Vorbereitung auf Aktenkurzvorträge in der mündlichen Prüfung durch und ist Autor zahlreicher Veröffentlichungen zum Handels- und Gesellschaftsrecht.

Blurb

This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2013), held in Uppsala, Sweden, in September 2013.

The 59 revised papers presented together with 5 invited talks were carefully selected from 170 submissions. The scope of the conference is on all aspects of computing with constraints, including: theory, algorithms, environments, languages, models and systems, applications such as decision making, resource allocation, and agreement technologies.