Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming - CP97 Third International Conference, CP97, Linz, Austria, October 29 - November 1, 1997

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, CP'97, held in Linz, Austria in October/November 1997. The volume presents 37 revised full papers carefully selected from a total of 132 submissions; also i...

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Other Authors: Smolka, Gert (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1997, 1997
Edition:1st ed. 1997
Series:Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Constraint propagation and decomposition techniques for highly disjunctive and highly cumulative project scheduling problems
  • Five pitfalls of empirical scheduling research
  • Bounding the optimum of constraint optimization problems
  • GENIUS-CP: A generic single-vehicle routing algorithm
  • Satisfiability of quantitative temporal constraints with multiple granularities
  • Tractable recursion over geometric data
  • Finding solvable subsets of constraint graphs
  • Tractable disjunctive constraints
  • Compiling constraint solving using projection
  • Oscillation, heuristic ordering and pruning in neighborhood search
  • Programming constraint inference engines
  • NeMo+: Object-oriented constraint programming environment based on subdefinite models
  • Set constraints: A pearl in research on constraints
  • Tabu search for maximal constraint satisfaction problems
  • Reconfigurable architectures: A new vision for optimization problems
  • Distributed partial constraint satisfaction problem
  • Localizer A modeling language for local search
  • Operational semantics and confluence of constraint propagation rules
  • AC-unification of higher-order patterns
  • On the complexity of unification and disunification in commutative idempotent semigroups
  • Ordering constraints over feature trees
  • From restricted path consistency to max-restricted path consistency
  • The constrainedness of Arc consistency
  • Look-ahead versus look-back for satisfiability problems
  • Why adding more constraints makes a problem easier for hill-climbing algorithms: Analyzing landscapes of CSPs
  • Interval methods for non-linear constraints
  • Configurablesolvers: Tailoring general methods to specific applications
  • Visual Solver A modeling language for constraint programming
  • Narrowing a 2n-block of sortings in O (n logn)
  • Solving various weighted matching problems with constraints
  • A filtering algorithm for global sequencing constraints
  • Semantics and expressive power of a timed concurrent constraint language
  • Solving classes of set constraints with tree automata
  • The logic of search algorithms: Theory and applications
  • Verification of parallel systems using constraint programming
  • Random constraint satisfaction: A more accurate picture
  • Heavy-tailed distributions in combinatorial search
  • Counting, structure identification and maximum consistency for binary constraint satisfaction problems
  • Statistical analysis of backtracking on inconsistent CSPs
  • Using constraint propagation for complex scheduling problems: Managing size, complex resources and travel
  • Understanding and improving the MAC algorithm
  • Modelling exceptionally hard constraint satisfaction problems