Constraint programming is a powerful paradigm for solving combinatorial search problems
that draws on a wide range of techniques from artificial intelligence, computer science …

This book provides a de? nition and study of a knowledge representation and r-soning
formalism stemming from conceptual graphs, while focusing on the com-tational properties …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses that constraint reasoning involves various types
of techniques to tackle the inherent intractability of the problem of satisfying a set of …

This volume was born from the experience of the authors as researchers and educators,
which suggests that many students of data mining are handicapped in their research by the …

Publisher Summary This chapter explores that there are three main algorithmic techniques
for solving constraint satisfaction problems:(1) backtracking search,(2) local search, and (3) …

A solution to a binary constraint satisfaction problem is a set of discrete values, one in each
of a given set of domains, subject to constraints that allow only prescribed pairs of values in …

The ability of ant colonies to form paths for carrying food is rather fascinating. When
considering the scale of ants, this path-finding problem is complex: ants only have a local …

Previous algorithms for unrestricted constraint satisfaction use reduction search, which
inferentially removes values from domains in order to prune the backtrack search tree. This …

In non-binary constraint satisfaction problems, the study of local consistencies that only
prune values from domains has so far been largely limited to generalized arc consistency or …

A non-binary Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) can be solved directly using extended
versions of binary techniques. Alternatively, the non-binary problem can be translated into …