Distributed Constraint Logic Programming

Author : Ho-Fung Leung
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9789810214562
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Distributed Constraint Logic Programming written by Ho-Fung Leung and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1993 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the first attempt to combine concurrent logic programming and constraint logic programing. It is divided into three parts. In the first part, a novel computation model, called the multi-Pandora model, which is designed on the basis of the Pandora model, is presented. In the second part, the distributed implementation schemes for Parlog, Pandora, and multi-Pandora are presented. Finally, the author presents the distributed constraint solvers for finite domain constraints, as well as the distributed constraint solvers in the domains of real numbers and Boolean rings which can be incorporated into the schemes presented in the second part to handle the ?ask?- and ?tell?-constraints.

Author : Toby Walsh
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540428631
Total Pages : 803 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( 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 Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2001-11-14 with total page 803 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.

Author : Angelo Oddi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642032516
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recent Advances in Constraints written by Angelo Oddi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-07-28 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed and extended post-workshop proceedings of the 13th Annual ERCIM International Workshop on Constraint Solving and Constraint Logic Programming, CSCLP 2008, held in Rome, Italy, in June 2008. The 9 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 14 initial submissions. The papers in this volume present original research results, as well as applications, in many aspects of constraint solving and constraint logic programming. Research topics that can be found in the papers are ̄rst-order constraints, symmetry breaking, global constraints, constraint optimization problems, distributed constraint solving problems, soft constraints, as well as the analysis of application domains such as cumulative resource problems and hybrid systems.

Author : Javier Larrosa
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642194850
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recent Advances in Constraints written by Javier Larrosa and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-03-16 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 14th Annual ERCIM International Workshop on Constraint Solving and Constraint Logic Programming, CSCLP 2009, held in Barcelona, Spain, in June 2009. The 9 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this post-proceedings. The papers in this volume present original research results and applications of constraint solving and constraint logic programming in several domains. Among the issues addressed are solving argumentation frameworks, software consistency, modeling languages, static design routing, dynamic constraint satisfaction, and constraint-based modeling.

Author : Barry O'Sullivan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540366075
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recent Advances in Constraints written by Barry O'Sullivan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-08-03 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Joint ERCIM/CologNet International Workshop on Constraint Solving and Constraint Logic Programming, held in Cork, Ireland in June 2002. The 14 revised full papers presented were carefully selected for inclusion in the book during two rounds of reviewing and revision. Among the topics addressed are verification and debugging of constraint logic programs, modeling and solving CSPs, explanation generation, inference and inconsistency processing, SAT and 0/1 encodings of CSPs, soft constraints and constraint relaxation, real-world applications, and distributed constraint solving.

Author : Francesca Rossi
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080463800
Total Pages : 977 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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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 : Boi Faltings
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540322523
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recent Advances in Constraints written by Boi Faltings and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed and extended post-proceedings of the ERCIM/CoLogNet International Workshop on Constraint Satisfaction and Constraint Logic Programming, CSCLP 2004, held in Lausanne, Switzerland in June 2004. Besides papers taken from the workshop, others are submitted in response to an open call for papers after the workshop. The 15 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on constraint propagation, constraint search, and applications.

Author : Angelo Oddi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783642032523
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recent Advances in Constraints written by Angelo Oddi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-08-29 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Pascal Van Hentenryck
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constraint Satisfaction in Logic Programming written by Pascal Van Hentenryck and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1989 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tackles classic problems from operations research and circuit design using a logic programming language embedding consistency techniques, a paradigm emerging from artificial intelligence research. Van Hentenryck proposes a new approach to solving discrete combinatorial problems using these techniques.Logic programming serves as a convenient language for stating combinatorial problems, but its "generate and test" paradigm leads to inefficient programs. Van Hentenryck's approach preserves one of the most useful features of logic programming - the duality of its semantics - yet allows a short development time for the programs while preserving most of the efficiency of special purpose programs written in a procedural language.Embedding consistency techniques in logic programming allows for ease and flexibility of programming and short development time because constraint propagation and tree-search programming are abstracted away from the user. It also enables logic programs to be executed efficiently as consistency techniques permit an active use of constraints to remove combinations of values that cannot appear in a solution Van Hentenryck presents a comprehensive overview of this new approach from its theoretical foundations to its design and implementation, including applications to real life combinatorial problems.The ideas introduced in "Constraint Satisfaction in Logic Programming "have been used successfully to solve more than a dozen practical problems in operations research and circuit design, including disjunctive scheduling, warehouse location, cutting stock car sequencing, and microcode labeling problems.Pascal Van Hentenryck is a member of the research staff at the European Computer Industry Research Centre. "Constraint Satisfaction in Logic Programming" is based on research for the Centre's CHIP project. As an outgrowth of this project, a new language (CHIP) that will include consistency techniques has been developed for commercial use. The book is included in the Logic Programming series edited by Ehud Shapiro.

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.