Over-Constrained Systems

Michael Jampel
Eugene Freuder Michael Maher (Eds.)
Over-Constrained
Systems
Technische Hochschule Darmstadt
FACHBEREICH INFOfiMATIK
B1BLIOTHEK
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Contents
A Brief Overview of Over-Constrained Systems
Michael Jampel
1
Background Papers
Constraint Hierarchies
Alan Borning, Bjorn Freeman-Bens on, and Molly Wilson
23
Partial Constraint Satisfaction
Eugene Freuder and Richard Wallace
63
Semiring-Based CSPs and Valued CSPs: Basic Properties
and Comparison
Stefano Bistarelli, Helene Fargier, Ugo Montanari, Francesco Rossi,
Thomas Schiex, and Gerard Verfaillie
Ill
Constraint Logic Programming
Defeasible Constraint Solving
Francisco Menezes and Pedro Barahona
Transforming Ordered Constraint Hierarchies into Ordinary
Constraint Systems
Armin Wolf
A Compositional Theory of Constraint Hierarchies
Michael Jampel
151
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189
Constraint Satisfaction Problems
Heuristic Methods for Over-Constrained Constraint
Satisfaction Problems
Richard Wallace and Eugene Freuder
207
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Cascaded Directed Arc Consistency and No-Good Learning for the
Maximal Constraint Satisfaction Problem
Richard Wallace
217
Partial Arc Consistency
229
Nick Dendris, Lefteris Kirousis, Yannis Stamatiou, and Dimitris Thilikos
Dynamic Constraint Satisfaction with Conflict Management in Design
Esther Gelle and Ian Smith
237
Alternative Paradigms
Specifying Over-Constrained Problems in Default Logic
Abdul Sattar, Aditya Ghose, and Randy Goebel
253
Implementing Constraint Relaxation over Finite Domains
Using Assumption-Based Truth Maintenance Systems
Narendra Jussien and Patrice Boizumault
265
Experiences in Solving Constraint Relaxation Networks with
Boltzmann Machines
Rolf Weifischnur, Joachim Hertzberg, and Hans Werner Guesgen
281
Solving Over-Constrained CSPs Using Weighted OBDDs
Fabrice Bouquet and Philippe Jegou
293
Author Index
309