Constraint Logic Programming Using Eclipse

Author : Krzysztof R. Apt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139460862
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( 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.

Author : Krzysztof R. Apt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521866286
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( 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.

Author : Kim Marriott
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262133418
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Programming with Constraints written by Kim Marriott and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constraints; Simplification, optimization and implication; Finite constraint domains; Constraint logic programming; Simple modeling; Using data structures; Controlling search; Modelling with finite domain constraints; Advanced programming techniques; CLP systems; Other constraint programming languages; Constraint databases; Index.

Author : Ioannis Vlahavas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461551196
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parallel and Constraint Logic Programming written by Ioannis Vlahavas and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constraint Logic Programming (CLP), an area of extreme research interest in recent years, extends the semantics of Prolog in such a way that the combinatorial explosion, a characteristic of most problems in the field of Artificial Intelligence, can be tackled efficiently. By employing solvers dedicated to each domain instead of the unification algorithm, CLP drastically reduces the search space of the problem, which leads to increased efficiency in the execution of logic programs. CLP offers the possibility of solving complex combinatorial problems in an efficient way, and at the same time maintains the advantages offered by the declarativeness of logic programming. The aim of this book is to present parallel and constraint logic programming, offering a basic understanding of the two fields to the reader new to the area. The first part of the book gives an introduction to the fundamental aspects of conventional logic programming which is necessary for understanding the parts that follow. The second part includes an introduction to parallel logic programming, architectures and implementations proposed in the area. Finally, the third part presents the principles of constraint logic programming. The last two parts also include descriptions of the supporting facilities for the two paradigms in two popular systems; ECLIPSe and SICStus. These platforms have been selected mainly because they offer both parallel and constraint features. Annotated and explained examples are also included in the relevant parts, offering a valuable guide and a first practical experience to the reader. Finally, applications of the covered paradigms are presented. The authors felt that a book of this kind should provide some theoretical background necessary for the understanding of the covered logic programming paradigms, and a quick start for the reader interested in writing parallel and constraint logic programming programs. However it is outside the scope of this book to provide a deep theoretical background of the two areas. In that sense, this book is addressed to a public interested in obtaining a knowledge of the domain, without spending the time and effort to understand the extensive theoretical work done in the field – namely postgraduate and advanced undergraduate students in the area of logic programming. This book fills a gap in the current bibliography, since there is no comprehensive book of this level that covers the areas of conventional, parallel, and constraint logic programming. Parallel and Constraint Logic Programming: An Introduction to Logic, Parallelism and Constraints is appropriate for an advanced level course on Logic Programming or Constraints, and as a reference for practitioners and researchers in industry.

Author : Krzysztof Apt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139438700
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( 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.

Author : Stefano Bistarelli
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540259252
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Semirings for Soft Constraint Solving and Programming written by Stefano Bistarelli and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-07-16 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constraint satisfaction and constraint programming have shown to be very simple but powerful ideas, with applications in various areas. Still, in the last ten years, the simple notion of constraints has shown some deficiencies concerning both theory and practice, typically in the way over-constrained problems and preferences are treated. For this reason, the notion of soft constraints has been introduced with semiring-based soft constraints and valued constraints being the two main general frameworks. This book includes formal definitions and properties of semiring-based soft constraints, as well as their use within constraint logic programming and concurrent constraint programming. Moreover, the author shows how to adapt existing notions and techniques such as abstraction and interchangeability to the soft constraint framework and it is demonstrated how soft constraints can be used in some application areas, such as security. Overall, this book is a great starting point for anyone interested in understanding the basics of semiring-based soft constraints.

Author : Neng-Fa Zhou
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319258834
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( 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 148 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.

Author : Thom Frühwirth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521877768
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constraint Handling Rules written by Thom Frühwirth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-09 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive reference on Constraint Handling Rules, from the creator of the language.

Author : Manuel Bodirsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107042844
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Complexity of Infinite-Domain Constraint Satisfaction written by Manuel Bodirsky and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the universal-algebraic approach to classifying the computational complexity of constraint satisfaction problems.

Author : Brahim Hnich
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540342168
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recent Advances in Constraints written by Brahim Hnich and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-05-21 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed and extended post-proceedings of the Joint ERCIM/CoLogNet International Workshop on Constraint Solving and Constraint Logic Programming, CSCLP 2005. The 12 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on global constraints, search and heuristics, language and implementation issues, and modeling.