Constraint Processing

Format:	Paperback (Visa alla format)
Förlag:	Elsevier Science & Technology (2003)
Språk:	English
Artikelid:	9781558608900
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Constraint problems are used to model cognitive tasks in vision, language comprehension, default reasoning, diagnosis, scheduling, and temporal and spatial reasoning. Rina Dechter synthesizes contributions from a range of fields to provide a comprehensive examination of the theory.

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Rina Dechter is a professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. She received her PhD in Computer Science at UCLA in 1985, a MS degree in Applied Mathematic from the Weizman Institute and a B.S in Mathematics and Ststistics from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Her research centers on computational aspects of automated reasoning and knowledge representation including search, constraint processing and probabilistic reasoning. Professor Dechter has authored over 50 research papers, and has served on the editorial boards of: Artificial Intelligence, the Constraint Journal, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research and the Encyclopedia of AI. She was awarded the Presidential Young investigator award in 1991 and is a fellow of the American association of Artificial Intelligence.

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Preface; Introduction; Constraint Networks; Consistency-Enforcing Algorithms: Constraint Propagation; Directional Consistency; General Search Strategies; General Search Strategies: Look-Back; Local Search Algorithms; Advanced Consistency Methods; Tree-Decomposition Methods; Hybrid of Search and Inference: Time-Space Trade-offs; Tractable Constraint Languages; Temporal Constraint Networks; Constraint Optimization; Probabilistic Networks; Constraint Logic Programming; Bibliography

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To summarize, this book distills well over three decades worth of development in CSP and constraint processing in a single textbook. I wholeheartedly recommend it to students, researchers and practitioners in artificial intelligence, constraint programming and operations research who want to know more about the theory of constraint processing. -Roland H.C. Yap, National University of Singapore, in Theory and Practice of Logic Programming This book provides a comprehensive and much needed introduction to the field by one of its foremost experts. It is beautifully written and presents a unifying framework capturing a wide range of techniques for processing symbolic, numerical, and probabilistic information. -Bart Selman, Cornell University I've been waiting a long time for a good theoretical introduction to constraint programming. Rina Dechter's book is just this. If you want to understand why this technology works, and how to make it work for you, then I recommend you read this book. -Toby Walsh, Cork Constraint Computation Centre The book is rigorous but it is not difficult to read. An abundance of examples illustrate concepts and algorithms. The reader is well guided through technical issues, so intuition is never hidden by technicalities. -Pedro Meseguer, Institut dInvestigacio en Intel.lingencia Artificial Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (IIIA-CSIC) An indispensable resource for researchers and practitioners in AI and optimization. -Henry Kautz, University of Washington

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