Constraint-Based Local Search

The ubiquity of combinatorial optimization problems in our society is illustrated by the novel application areas for optimization technology, which range from supply chain management to sports tournament scheduling. Over the last two decades, constraint p...

 Essentials of Constraint Programming

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 ...

 Semirings for Soft Constraint Solving and Programming

Constraint satisfaction and constraint programming have shown to be very simple but powerful ideas, with applications in various areas. Still, in the last ten years, the simple notion of constraints has shown some deficiencies concerning both theory and p...

 Principles of constraint programming

Constraints are everywhere: most computational problems can be described in terms of restrictions imposed on the set of possible solutions, and constraint programming is a problem-solving technique that works by incorporating those restrictions in a progr...

 Constraint processing

Features : Builds the reader's understanding with definitions, examples, theory, algorithms and complexity analysis Focuses on fundamental tools and principles Synthesizes three decades of research in diverse fields including AI, databases, operations...

 Evolutionary Computation 2 Advanced Algorithms and Operators

This volume expands upon the basic ideas underlying evolutionary algorithms. The focus is on fitness evaluation, constraint-handling techniques, population structures, advanced techniques in evolutionary computation and implementation of evolutionary algo...