Recent Advances in Constraints (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Global Constraints.- The All Different and Global Cardinality Constraints on Set, Multiset and Tuple Variables.- Complete Propagation Rules for Lexicographic Order Constraints over Arbitrary Domains.- Among, Common and Disjoint Constraints.- Search and Heuristics.- Partitioning Based Algorithms for Some Colouring Problems.- A CSP Search Algorithm with Reduced Branching Factor.- Analysis of Heuristic Synergies.- Complexity Analysis of Heuristic CSP Search Algorithms.- Language and Implementation Issues.- A Type System for CHR.- Views and Iterators for Generic Constraint Implementations.- Modeling.- A Hybrid Benders' Decomposition Method for Solving Stochastic Constraint Programs with Linear Recourse.- The Challenge of Exploiting Weak Symmetries.- On Generators of Random Quasigroup Problems.