A successful integration of constraint programming and data mining has the potential to lead to a new ICT paradigm with far reaching implications. It could change the face of data mining and machine learning, as well as constraint programming technology. It would not only allow one to use data mining techniques in constraint programming to identify and update constraints and optimization criteria, but also to employ constraints and criteria in data mining and machine learning in order to discover models compatible with prior knowledge. This book reports on some key results obtained on this integrated and cross- disciplinary approach within the European FP7 FET Open project no. 284715 on "Inductive Constraint Programming" and a number of associated workshops and Dagstuhl seminars. The book is structured in five parts: background; learning to model; learning to solve; constraint programming for data mining; and showcases.

Diploma Thesis from the year 2007 in the subject Computer Science - Theory, grade: 1,0, University of Leipzig, 127 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Constraint programming is an area of Artificial Intelligence which has many applications. This thesis applies its techniques to a new kind of problem - the rendering of online retailer websites. First, in-depth introductions to constraint programming and the problem of rendering a shop website will be given. A prototypical implementation of a constraint problem solver and a system to solve and illustrate the problem will be described. The architecture of the prototypical implementation and specific features, algorithms, and design decisions will be detailed, analysed, and illustrated. An overview of related work both in the fields of constraint programming and website generation will be presented and existing technologies evaluated. Features and concepts unique to this thesis, like real-time constraint satisfaction, will be introduced and discussed. Finally, a comprehensive example will illustrate the problem, means of modelling it, and possible solutions. An outlook to future work and a summary conclude the thesis. Constraint Programming ist ein Teilgebiet der kunstlichen Intelligenz mit vielen praktischen Anwendungen. Diese Diplomarbeit wendet die Techniken auf eine neue Art von Problem an - das Rendern von Webseiten von Internetshops. Zuerst wird eine detaillierte Einfuhrung zu Constraint Programming und dem Problem die Webseite eines Online-Shops zu rendern gegeben werden. Eine Beispielimplementierung eines Constraint Problem Solvers und eines Systems um das Problem zu losen und illustrieren werden beschrieben werden. Die Architektur der Beispielimplementierung und spezielle Eigenschaften, Algorithmen und Implementierungsentscheidungen werden genau beschrieben, analysiert und illustriert werden. Ein Uberblick von ahnlichen Arbeiten sowohl im Bereich des Constraint Programming als auch