Handbook of Constraint Programming
( Foundations of Artificial Intelligence )
Publication series ：Foundations of Artificial Intelligence
Author： Rossi Francesca;Beek Peter van;Walsh Toby
Publisher： Elsevier Science
Publication year： 2006
E-ISBN: 9780080463803
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780444527264
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9780444527264
Subject： TP Automation Technology , Computer Technology;TP312 程序语言、算法语言
Language： ENG
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Description
Constraint programming is a powerful paradigm for solving combinatorial search problems that draws on a wide range of techniques from artificial intelligence, computer science, databases, programming languages, and operations research. Constraint programming is currently applied with success to many domains, such as scheduling, planning, vehicle routing, configuration, networks, and bioinformatics.
The aim of this handbook is to capture the full breadth and depth of the constraint programming field and to be encyclopedic in its scope and coverage. While there are several excellent books on constraint programming, such books necessarily focus on the main notions and techniques and cannot cover also extensions, applications, and languages. The handbook gives a reasonably complete coverage of all these lines of work, based on constraint programming, so that a reader can have a rather precise idea of the whole field and its potential. Of course each line of work is dealt with in a survey-like style, where some details may be neglected in favor of coverage. However, the extensive bibliography of each chapter will help the interested readers to find suitable sources for the missing details. Each chapter of the handbook is intended to be a self-contained survey of a topic, and is written by one or more authors who are leading researchers in the area.
The intended audience of the handbook is researchers, graduate students, higher-year undergraduates and practitioners w
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