Programming with constraints : an introduction
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Programming with constraints : an introduction
MIT Press, c1998
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [449]-457) and index
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Description
The job of the constraint programmer is to use mathematical constraints to model real world constraints and objects. In this book, Kim Marriott and Peter Stuckey provide the first comprehensive introduction to the discipline of constraint programming and, in particular, constraint logic programming. The book covers the necessary background material from artificial intelligence, logic programming, operations research, and mathematical programming. Topics discussed range from constraint-solving techniques to programming methodologies for constraint programming languages. Because there is not yet a universally used syntax for constraint logic programming languages, the authors present the programs in a way that is independent of any existing programming language. Practical exercises cover how to use the book with a number of existing constraint languages.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Constraints: constraints
- simplifications, optimization and implication
- finite constraint domains. Part 2 Constraint logic programming: constraint logic programming
- simple modelling using data structures
- controlling search
- modelling with finite domain constraints
- advanced programming techniques
- CLP systems. Part 3 Other constraint programming languages: constraint databases
- other constraint programming languages.
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