Recent Advances in Constraints: Joint ERCIM/CoLogNET International Workshop on Constraint Solving and Constraint Logic Programming, CSCLP 2003, ... June 30 - July 2, 2003, Selected Papers

by Krzysztof R. Apt (Editor)

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 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.

298 pages, Paperback

First published July 25, 2004