Recent Advances in Constraints

Autorentext
Francisco Azevedo, 1951 in Rio de Janeiro geboren, ist ehemaliger Diplomat und langjähriger Drehbuch- und Theaterautor. Neben etlichen Theaterstücken hat er über 250 Drehbücher für Spiel- und Dokumentarfilme, preisgekrönte Multimedia- und TV-Werbespots geschrieben.

Zusammenfassung

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed and extended post-proceedings of the 11th Annual ERCIM International Workshop on Constraint Solving and Constraint Logic Programming, CSCLP 2006, held in Caparica, Portugal in June 2006. The papers are organized in topical sections on global constraints, search and heuristics, language and implementation issues, and modeling.

Inhalt
Tutorial.- Hybrid Algorithms in Constraint Programming.- Technical Papers.- An Attempt to Dynamically Break Symmetries in the Social Golfers Problem.- A Constraint Model for State Transitions in Disjunctive Resources.- Reusing CSP Propagators for QCSPs.- Bipolar Preference Problems: Framework, Properties and Solving Techniques.- Distributed Forward Checking May Lie for Privacy.- Solving First-Order Constraints in the Theory of the Evaluated Trees.- Extracting Microstructure in Binary Constraint Networks.- Complexity of a CHR Solver for Existentially Quantified Conjunctions of Equations over Trees.- Efficient Recognition of Acyclic Clustered Constraint Satisfaction Problems.- Cost-Based Filtering for Stochastic Inventory Control.