Krzysztof R. Apt

Constraint Logic Programming using Eclipse (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Constraint logic programming lies at the intersection of logic programming, optimisation and artificial intelligence. It has proved a successful tool in many areas including production planning, transportation scheduling, numerical analysis and bioinformatics. Eclipse is one of the leading software systems that realise its underlying methodology. Eclipse is exploited commercially by Cisco, and is freely available and used for teaching and research in over 500 universities. This book has a two-fold purpose. It's an introduction to constraint programming, appropriate for one-semester courses for upper undergraduate or graduate students in computer science or for programmers wishing to master the practical aspects of constraint programming. By the end of the book, the reader will be able to understand and write constraint programs that solve complex problems. Second, it provides a systematic introduction to the Eclipse system through carefully-chosen examples that guide the reader through the language and illustrate its power, versatility and utility.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511345852
• Artikelnr.: 38212233

Autorenporträt

Krzysztof R. Apt received his PhD in 1974 in mathematical logic from the University of Warsaw in Poland. He is a senior researcher at CWI, Amsterdam and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of three other books: Verification of Sequential and Concurrent Programs (with E.-R. Olderog), From Logic Programming to Prolog, and Principles of Constraint Programming, and has published 50 journal articles and 15 book chapters. He is the founder and the first editor-in-chief of the ACM Transactions on Computational Logic, and past president of the Association for Logic Programming. He is a member of the Academia Europaea (Mathematics and Informatics Section).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Logic Programming Paradigm: 1. Logic programming and pure Prolog
2. A reconstruction of pure Prolog
Part II. Elements of Prolog: 3. Arithmetic in Prolog
4. Control and meta-programming
5. Manipulating structures
Part III. Programming with Passive Constraints: 6. Constraint programming: a primer
7. Intermezzo: iteration in ECLiPSe
8. Top-down search with passive constraints
9. The suspend library
Part IV. Programming with Active Constraints: 10. Constraint propagation in ECLiPSe
11. Top-down search with active constraints
12. Optimisation with active constraints
13. Constraints on reals
14. Linear constraints over continuous and integer variables
Solutions to selected exercises
Bibliographic remarks
Bibliography
Index.