Constraints in Computational Logics: Theory and Applications International Summer School, CCL ’99 Gif-sur-Yvette, France, September 5–8, 1999 Revised Lectures

Jean-Pierre Jouannaud, Ralf Treinen (auth.), Gerhard Goos, Juris Hartmanis, Jan van Leeuwen, Hubert Comon, Claude Marché, Ralf Treinen (eds.)3540419500, 9783540419501

Constraints provide a declarative way of representing infinite sets of data. They are well suited for combining different logical or programming paradigms as has been known for constraint logic programming since the 1980s and more recently for functional programming. The use of constraints in automated deduction is more recent and has proved to be very successful, moving the control from the meta-level to the constraints, which are now first-class objects.
This monograph-like book presents six thoroughly reviewed and revised lectures given by leading researchers at the summer school organized by the ESPRIT CCL Working Group in Gif-sur-Yvette, France, in September 1999. The book offers coherently written chapters on constraints and constraint solving, constraint solving on terms, combining constraint solving, constraints and theorem proving, functional and constraint logic programming, and building industrial applications.

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Table of contents :
Constraints and Constraint Solving: An Introduction….Pages 1-46
Constraint Solving on Terms….Pages 47-103
Combining Constraint Solving….Pages 104-158
Constraints and Theorem Proving….Pages 159-201
Functional and Constraint Logic Programming….Pages 202-270
Building Industrial Applications with Constraint Programming….Pages 271-309