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Constraint Handling Rules (CHR) is both a theoretical formalism
based on logic and a practical programming language based on rules.
This book, written by the creator of CHR, describes the theory of
CHR and how to use it in practice. It is supported by a website
containing teaching materials, online demos, and free downloads of
the language. After a basic tutorial, the author describes in
detail the CHR language and discusses guaranteed properties of CHR
programs. The author then compares CHR with other formalisms and
languages and illustrates how it can capture their essential
features. Finally, larger programs are introduced and analyzed in
detail. The book is ideal for graduate students and lecturers, and
for more experienced programmers and researchers, who can use it
for self-study. Exercises with selected solutions, and
bibliographic remarks are included at the ends of chapters. The
book is the definitive reference on the subject.
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KI 2004: Advances in Artificial Intelligence - 27th Annual German Conference in AI, KI 2004, Ulm, Germany, September 20-24, 2004, Proceedings (Paperback, 2004 ed.)
Susanne Biundo, Thom Fruhwirth, G unther Palm
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KI2004wasthe27theditionoftheannualGermanConferenceonArti?cialInt-
ligence, which traditionally brings together academic and
industrial researchers from all areas of AI and which enjoys
increasing international attendance. KI 2004 received 103
submissions from 26 countries. This volume contains the 30 papers
that were ?nally selected for presentation at the conference. The
papers cover quite a broad spectrum of "classical" subareas of AI,
like na- ral language processing, neural networks, knowledge
representation, reasoning, planning, and search. When looking at
this year's contributions, it was exciting to observe that there
was a strong trend towards actual real-world applications of AI
technology. A majority of contributions resulted from or were
motivated by applications in a variety of areas. Examples include
applications of pl- ning, where the technology is being exploited
for taxiway tra?c control and game playing; natural language
processing and knowledge representation are enabling advanced
Web-based information processing; and the integration of - sults
from automated reasoning, neural networks and machine perception
into robotics leads to signi?cantly improved capabilities of
autonomous systems. The technical programme of KI 2004 was
highlighted by invited talks from outstanding researchers in the
areas of automated reasoning, robot planning, constraintreasoning,
machinelearning, andsemanticWeb: Jorg ] Siekmann(DFKI
andUniversityofSaarland, Saarbruc ] ken), MalikGhallab(LAAS-CNRS,
Toulouse), Franco, is Fages (INRIA Rocquencourt), Martin Riedmiller
(University of - nabru ]ck),
andWolfgangWahlster(DFKIandUniversityofSaarland, Saarbruc ] ken).
Their invited papers are also presented in this volume."
The book is a short, concise and complete presentation of constraint programming and reasoning. The use of constraints had its scientific and commercial breakthrough in the 1990s. Programming with constraints makes it possible to model and solve problems with uncertain, incomplete information and combinatorial problems, as they are abundant in industry and commerce, such as scheduling, planning, transportation, resource allocation, layout, design and analysis. The theoretically well-founded presentation includes application examples from real life. It introduces the common classes of constraint programming languages and constraint systems in a uniform way. Constraint solving algorithms are specified and implemented in the constraint handling rules language (CHR). This book is ideally suited as a textbook for graduate students and as a resource for researchers and practitioners. The Internet support includes teaching material, software, latest news and online use and examples of the CHR language.
The use of constraints had its scientific and commercial
breakthrough in the 1990s. Programming with constraints makes it
possible to model and specify problems with uncertain, incomplete
information and to solve combi natorial problems, as they are
abundant in industry and commerce, such as scheduling, planning,
transportation, resource allocation, layout, design, and analysis.
This book is a short, concise, and complete presentation of
constraint programming and reasoning, covering theoretical
foundations, algorithms, implementations, examples, and
applications. It is based on more than a decade of experience in
teaching and research about this subject. This book is intended
primarily for graduate students, researchers, and practitioners in
diverse areas of computer science and related fields, including
programming languages, computational logic, symbolic computation,
and ar tificial intelligence. The book is complemented by a
web-page with teaching material, software, links, and more. We take
the reader on a step-by-step journey through the world of
constraint-based programming and constraint reasoning. Feel free to
join in ... Acknowledgements Thorn thanks his wife Andrea and his
daughter Anna - for everything. He dedicates his contribution to
the book to the memory of his mother, Grete. Slim thanks his wife N
abila and his daughters Shirine and Amira for their ongoing support
and patience."
The ConstraintHandling Rules (CHR) languagecameto life morethan 15
years ago.Sincethen,
ithasbecomeamajordeclarativespeci?cationandimplemen- tion language
for constraint-based algorithms and applications. In recent years,
the ?ve Workshops on Constraint Handling Rules have spurred the
exchange of ideas within the CHR community, which has led to
increased international collaboration, new theoretical results and
optimized implementations. The aim of this volume of Lecture Notes
in Ariti?cial Intelligence was to attract high-quality research
papers on these recent advances in CHR. The 8 papersinthis
issuewereselectedfrom11submissionsaftercarefulreviewingand
subsequent revisions. Each paper was reviewd by three reviewers.
The accepted papers represent some of the research teams on CHR
around the world. It is not by accident that the currently most
active research group is featured here with three articles. We also
would have liked to see contributions from other CHR teams, but
space is limited and the reviewers took their job seriously. After
an introductory article that foreshadows an upcoming monograph on
CHR, the accepted papers span a range of current research topics in
the CHR community. It goes from extending the CHR language with
search facilities and the related adaptive framework, and from
generating rules from speci?cations of constraint solvers to
implementing abductive probabilistic reasoning. They cover the
theory that is a compositional semantics for CHR and ?nally
describe e?cient implementations of CHR in traditional mainstream
programming l- guages and compiler optimizations in the context of
the re?ned semantics of CHR.
Wewouldliketothanktheauthorsofsubmittedpapersandthemanyrevi- ers
for their contribution in making this collection of research papers
possible
Das Buch gibt einen kompakten, aber umfassenden UEberblick uber das
Problemloesen und Programmieren mit Constraints (Randbedingungen).
Diese aktuelle Programmiermethodik ermoeglicht es, Aufgaben direkt
zu formulieren und effizient zu loesen. Sie gewinnt zusehends
Bedeutung in Anwendungsbereichen wie Kombinatorische Suchprobleme
(z.B. Zeitplanen, Layout-Optimierung), Berechnungen
(Finanzanalyse), Simulation (Hardware-Verifikation) oder allgemein
Schliessen und Rechnen mit ungenauer oder unvollstandiger
Information (z.B. Kostenschatzung). Die theoretisch fundierte
Darstellung mit Aufgaben und Anwendungsbeispielen aus der Praxis
ist in der Lehre erprobt, aber auch fur Forscher und Praktiker von
Nutzen.
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