Armin Wolf - Böcker

Die Constraint-Programmierung liefert Methoden zur effizienten Modellierung von Systemen oder zur Lösung von Problemstellungen, bei denen nur unvollständige Informationen vorliegen (z.B. Entscheidungssysteme, Optimierungsprobleme, Analyse stochastischer Prozesse), sowie zur Lösung kombinatorischer Probleme (Ressourcenmanagement) oder auch bei der Entwicklung komplexer Deduktionssysteme.Dieses Lehrbuch gibt eine kompakte Einführung in die Constraint-Programmierung. Dabei werden neben allgemeinen theoretischen Grundlagen auch Sprachen, Methoden und Verfahren zur Modellierung und Lösung von Constraint-Problemen vorgestellt sowie deren Anwendungsfelder betrachtet und anhand typischer Beispiele wie Terminplanung, Finanzwesen, Optimierung, Simulation und Diagnose vergegenständlicht. Das Buch richtet sich an Studierende der Informatik im Hauptstudium. Es basiert auf einer einsemestrigen Vorlesung mit Übungen der Autoren.

Knowledge means power – but only if it is available at the right time, the right place, and in the hands of the right people. Structured, engineered, repeatable methodsto gather,transport,andapplyknowledgearecollectivelycalledkno- edge management. Declarative programming strives for the ideal of programming by wish: the user states what he or she wants, and the computer ?gures out how to achieve it. Thus, declarative programming splits into two separate parts: methods for humans on how to write wishes, and algorithms for computers that ful?l these wishes. Knowledgemanagementisnowrecognizedasaneconomickeyfactor.Decl- ative programming has matured far beyond the research stage of a merely - teresting formal logic model to one of the powerful tools in computer science. Nowadays,no professionalactivity isthinkable without knowledgemanagement, and companies increasingly need to document their business processes. Here, declarative programming carries the promise to be a shortcut to not only do- menting but also implementing knowledge-based enterprises. This volume presents a selection of papers presented at the 16th Inter- tional Conference on Applications of Declarative Programming and Knowledge Management, INAP 2005,held in October 2005 at Waseda University, Fukuoka, Japan. These papers re?ect a snapshot of ongoing research and current app- cations in knowledge management and declarative programming. Further, they provide reality checks and many pointers for readers who consider introducing related technologies into their products or working environments. Skimming through the table of contents, technology managers as well as - plementorswillbesurprisedonthewidescopecoveredbythisselectionofpapers. If you think of knowledge streams as supply, manufacturing, ordistribution chains, you will see that it all ?ts together.

This volume constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Applications of Declarative Programming and Knowledge Management, INAP 2007, and the 21st Workshop on Logic Programming, WLP 2007, held in Würzburg, Germany, during October 4-6, 2007. The 16 thoroughly revised full papers presented together with 1 invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The topics covered are constraints; databases and data mining; extensions of logic programming; and system demonstrations.

This book constitutes revised selected papers of the 19th International Conference on Applications of Declarative Programming and Knowledge Management, INAP 2011, and the 25th Workshop on Logic Programming, WLP 2011, held in Vienna, Austria, in September 2011. The 19 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 27 papers presented at the conference and initially a total of 35 submissions. The book also contains the papers of two invited talks. The papers are organized in topical sections on languages; answer-set programming and abductive reasoning; constraints and logic programming; answer-set programming and model expansion; application papers; and system descriptions.