Constraint Solving and Planning with Picat


Book Description

This book introduces a new logic-based multi-paradigm programming language that integrates logic programming, functional programming, dynamic programming with tabling, and scripting, for use in solving combinatorial search problems, including CP, SAT, and MIP (mixed integer programming) based solver modules, and a module for planning that is implemented using tabling. The book is useful for undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and practitioners.




Advances in Systems Engineering


Book Description

This book features high-quality, peer-reviewed papers from the 28th International Conference Systems Engineering (ICSEng 2021), held at Wrcław University of Science and Technology, Wrocław, Poland, on December 14–16, 2021. Presenting the latest developments and technical solutions in systems engineering, it covers a variety of topics, such as analog and digital hardware systems, artificial intelligence and machine learning, distance learning & games, E-business systems, financial technology, general control systems, hyper-automation and Industry 4.0, Internet of things, sensor and biometric systems, medical systems and applications, robotics, computer vision, HCI, and parallel and distributed systems. As such, it helps those in the computer industry and academia to use the advances in next-generation systems engineering technology to shape real-world applications.




Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages


Book Description

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages, PADL 2016, held in St. Petersburg, FL, USA, in January 2016. The 11 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 17 initial submissions for inclusion in the book. PADL is a forum for researchers and practitioners to present original work emphasizing novel applications and implementation techniques for all forms of declarative concepts, including, functional, logic, constraints, etc.




Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages


Book Description

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages, PADL 2017, held in Paris, France, in January 2017 and collocated with the ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages. The 14 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 27 submissions. They deal with novel applications and implementation techniques for all forms of declarative languages, including but not limited to logic, constraint, and functional languages.




Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming


Book Description

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, CP 2020, held in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, in September 2020. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 55 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 122 submissions. They deal with all aspects of computing with constraints including theory, algorithms, environments, languages, models, systems, and applications such as decision making, resource allocation, scheduling, configuration, and planning. The papers were organized according to the following topics/tracks: technical track; application track; and CP and data science and machine learning.




Recent Advances in Constraints


Book Description

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Joint ERCIM/CologNet International Workshop on Constraint Solving and Constraint Logic Programming, held in Cork, Ireland in June 2002. The 14 revised full papers presented were carefully selected for inclusion in the book during two rounds of reviewing and revision. Among the topics addressed are verification and debugging of constraint logic programs, modeling and solving CSPs, explanation generation, inference and inconsistency processing, SAT and 0/1 encodings of CSPs, soft constraints and constraint relaxation, real-world applications, and distributed constraint solving.




Recent Advances in Constraints


Book Description

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed and extended post-proceedings of the Joint ERCIM/CoLogNet International Workshop on Constraint Solving and Constraint Logic Programming, CSCLP 2005. The 12 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on global constraints, search and heuristics, language and implementation issues, and modeling.




Artificial Intelligence


Book Description

This volume contains selected tutorial and young scientist school papers of the 5th RAAI Summer School on Artificial Intelligence, held in July 2019 at Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) campus in Dolgoprudny, a suburb of Moscow, Russia. The 11 chapters in this volume present papers focusing on various important aspects of Multiagent systems; Behavior planning; Natural language processing; Modeling of reasoning; and Machine learning and data analysis.







Rule Technologies. Research, Tools, and Applications


Book Description

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International RuleML Symposium, RuleML 2016, held in New York, NY, USA during July 2016. The 19 full papers, 1 short paper, 2 keynote abstracts, 2 invited tutorial papers, 1 invited standard paper, presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 36 submissions. RuleML is a leading conference aiming to build bridges between academia and industry in the field of rules and its applications, especially as part of the semantic technology stack. It is devoted to rule-based programming and rule-based systems including production rule systems, logic programming rule engines, and business rule engines and business rule management systems, Semantic Web rule languages and rule standards and technologies, and research on inference rules, transformation rules, decision rules, and ECA rules.