Recent Advances in Constraints: Joint Ercim/Colognet International Workshop on Constraint Solving and Constraint Logic Programming, Csclp 2003, Budape

ISBN-13: 9783540218340 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 288 str.

K. R. Apt; Krzysztof R. Apt

Opis

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Joint ERCIM/CoLogNET International Workshop on Constraint Solving and Constraint Logic Programming, CSCLP 2003 held in Budapest, Hungary in June/July 2003.

The 15 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in Topical sections on constraint solving, soft constraints, language issues, and applications.

Spis treści

Constraint Solving.- A Comparative Study of Arithmetic Constraints on Integer Intervals.- Clustering for Disconnected Solution Sets of Numerical CSPs.- Implementing Propagators for Tabular Constraints.- Constraint Methods for Modal Satisfiability.- Learning Approximate Consistencies.- Soft Constraints.- Abstracting Soft Constraints: Some Experimental Results on Fuzzy CSPs.- Tradeoff Generation Using Soft Constraints.- Experimental Evaluation of Interchangeability in Soft CSPs.- Language Issues.- A Rule Language for Interaction.- A Generic Trace Schema for the Portability of CP(FD) Debugging Tools.- Applications.- Teaching Constraints through Logic Puzzles.- Reduce-To-The-Opt – A Specialized Search Algorithm for Contiguous Task Scheduling.- A New Approach to Modeling and Solving Minimal Perturbation Problems.- Protein Folding in CLP( ) with Empirical Contact Energies.- Gestures for Embodied Agents with Logic Programming.