Overview
- The first book available in English for the NCL language
- Presents a description language in mathematical logic, proved practical in industry
- Foreword by Alain Colmerauer, father of Prolog
- Provides theoretical foundations on modeling and software engineering for industrial applications
- Includes plenty of tutorials and modeling examples from both academy and industry
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About this book
"The NCL Natural Constraint Language" presents the NCL language which is a description language in conventional mathematical logic for modeling and solving constraint satisfaction problems. NCL differs from other declarative languages: It models problems naturally in a simplified form of first-order logic with quantifiers, Boolean logic, numeric constraints, set operations and logical functions; it solves problems by mixed set programming over the mixed domain of real numbers, integers, Booleans, dates/times, references, and in particular sets. The book uses plenty of examples and tutorials to illustrate NCL and its applications. It is intended for researchers and developers in the fields of logic programming, constraint programming, optimization, modeling, operations research and artificial intelligence, who will learn from a new programming language and theoretical foundations for industrial applications.
Dr. Jianyang Zhou is the inventor of NCL and has worked for its industrialization for more than 10 years.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The NCL Natural Constraint Language
Authors: Jianyang Zhou
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23845-1
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Science Press, Beijing and Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-23844-4Published: 07 September 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-23845-1Published: 09 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 311
Additional Information: Jointly published with Science Press Ltd.
Topics: Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters, Artificial Intelligence, Logics and Meanings of Programs, Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages, Operations Research/Decision Theory