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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Constraint satisfaction and constraint programming have shown to be very simple but powerful ideas, with applications in various areas. Still, in the last ten years, the simple notion of constraints has shown some deficiencies concerning both theory and practice, typically in the way over-constrained problems and preferences are treated. For this reason, the notion of soft constraints has been introduced with semiring-based soft constraints and valued constraints being the two main general frameworks.
This book includes formal definitions and properties of semiring-based soft constraints, as well as their use within constraint logic programming and concurrent constraint programming. Moreover, the author shows how to adapt existing notions and techniques such as abstraction and interchangeability to the soft constraint framework and it is demonstrated how soft constraints can be used in some application areas, such as security.
Overall, this book is a great starting point for anyone interested in understanding the basics of semiring-based soft constraints.
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Semirings for Soft Constraint Solving and Programming
Authors: Stefano Bistarelli
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b95712
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-21181-5Published: 24 February 2004
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-25925-1Published: 16 July 2004
Series ISSN: 0302-9743
Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 284
Topics: Algebra, Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters, Programming Techniques, Software Engineering, Logics and Meanings of Programs, Artificial Intelligence