Open AccessBook
Constraint Processing
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
Rina Dechter synthesizes three decades of researchers work on constraint processing in AI, databases and programming languages, operations research, management science, and applied mathematics to provide the first comprehensive examination of the theory that underlies constraint processing algorithms.Abstract:
Constraint satisfaction is a simple but powerful tool. Constraints identify the impossible and reduce the realm of possibilities to effectively focus on the possible, allowing for a natural declarative formulation of what must be satisfied, without expressing how. The field of constraint reasoning has matured over the last three decades with contributions from a diverse community of researchers in artificial intelligence, databases and programming languages, operations research, management science, and applied mathematics. Today, constraint problems are used to model cognitive tasks in vision, language comprehension, default reasoning, diagnosis, scheduling, temporal and spatial reasoning.
In Constraint Processing, Rina Dechter, synthesizes these contributions, along with her own significant work, to provide the first comprehensive examination of the theory that underlies constraint processing algorithms. Throughout, she focuses on fundamental tools and principles, emphasizing the representation and analysis of algorithms.
·Examines the basic practical aspects of each topic and then tackles more advanced issues, including current research challenges
·Builds the reader's understanding with definitions, examples, theory, algorithms and complexity analysis
·Synthesizes three decades of researchers work on constraint processing in AI, databases and programming languages, operations research, management science, and applied mathematics
Table of Contents
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; Bibliographyread more
Citations
More filters
Book
Graphical Models, Exponential Families, and Variational Inference
TL;DR: The variational approach provides a complementary alternative to Markov chain Monte Carlo as a general source of approximation methods for inference in large-scale statistical models.
Book
Handbook of Constraint Programming
TL;DR: Researchers from other fields should find in this handbook an effective way to learn about constraint programming and to possibly use some of the constraint programming concepts and techniques in their work, thus providing a means for a fruitful cross-fertilization among different research areas.
Book
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
TL;DR: This landmark text takes the central concepts of knowledge representation developed over the last 50 years and illustrates them in a lucid and compelling way, and offers the first true synthesis of the field in over a decade.
Book
Handbook of Knowledge Representation
TL;DR: The Handbook of Knowledge Representation is an up-to-date review of twenty-five key topics in knowledge representation written by the leaders of each field, an essential resource for students, researchers and practitioners in all areas of Artificial Intelligence.
Journal ArticleDOI
Learning Dependency-Based Compositional Semantics
TL;DR: A new semantic formalism, dependency-based compositional semantics (DCS) is developed and a log-linear distribution over DCS logical forms is defined and it is shown that the system obtains comparable accuracies to even state-of-the-art systems that do require annotated logical forms.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Decomposing constraint satisfaction problems using database techniques
TL;DR: It is proved that a constraint satisfaction problem may be decomposed into a number of subproblems precisely when the corresponding hypergraph satisfies a simple condition.
Journal ArticleDOI
A theoretical evaluation of selected backtracking algorithms
Grzegorz Kondrak,Peter van Beek +1 more
TL;DR: A notion of inconsistency between instantiations and variables is introduced, and is shown to be a useful tool for characterizing such well-known concepts as backtrack, backjump, and domain annihilation.
Journal ArticleDOI
Radio Link Frequency Assignment
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a suite of simplified versions of radio link frequency assignment problems (RLFAP) starting from data on a real network Roisnel93 and also introduce the GRAPH instances which were generated during the CALMA project.
Proceedings Article
Refining the basic constraint propagation algorithm
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on AC-3, which is the simplest arc consistency algorithm known so far, and propose two refinements that preserve as much as possible the ease of integration into a solver (no heavy data structure to be maintained during search).
From local to global consistency
TL;DR: In this paper, a tractability classification of constraint networks is presented, based on which it is shown that any relation on bi-valued variables which is not representable by a network of binary constraints cannot be represented by networks with any number of hidden variables.