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Handbook of Parallel Constraint Reasoning

  • Editors and authors world-leading researchers in this domain
  • Suitable for researchers, practitioners and graduate students engaged with constraint-based reasoning
  • First part addresses theory and algorithms, second part tools and applications

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
  2. Theory and Algorithms

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Parallel Satisfiability

      • Tomáš Balyo, Carsten Sinz
      Pages 3-29
    3. Cube-and-Conquer for Satisfiability

      • Marijn J. H. Heule, Oliver Kullmann, Armin Biere
      Pages 31-59
    4. Parallel Maximum Satisfiability

      • Inês Lynce, Vasco Manquinho, Ruben Martins
      Pages 61-99
    5. Parallel Solving of Quantified Boolean Formulas

      • Florian Lonsing, Martina Seidl
      Pages 101-139
    6. Parallel Satisfiability Modulo Theories

      • Antti E. J. Hyvärinen, Christoph M. Wintersteiger
      Pages 141-178
    7. Parallel Theorem Proving

      • Maria Paola Bonacina
      Pages 179-235
    8. Parallel Answer Set Programming

      • Agostino Dovier, Andrea Formisano, Enrico Pontelli
      Pages 237-282
    9. Parallel Solvers for Mixed Integer Linear Optimization

      • Ted Ralphs, Yuji Shinano, Timo Berthold, Thorsten Koch
      Pages 283-336
    10. Parallel Constraint Programming

      • Jean-Charles Régin, Arnaud Malapert
      Pages 337-379
    11. Parallel Local Search

      • Philippe Codognet, Danny Munera, Daniel Diaz, Salvador Abreu
      Pages 381-417
    12. Parallel A* for State-Space Search

      • Alex Fukunaga, Adi Botea, Yuu Jinnai, Akihiro Kishimoto
      Pages 419-455
    13. Parallel Model Checking Algorithms for Linear-Time Temporal Logic

      • Jiri Barnat, Vincent Bloemen, Alexandre Duret-Lutz, Alfons Laarman, Laure Petrucci, Jaco van de Pol et al.
      Pages 457-507
    14. Multi-core Decision Diagrams

      • Tom van Dijk, Jaco van de Pol
      Pages 509-545
    15. Parallel Model-Based Diagnosis

      • Kostyantyn Shchekotykhin, Dietmar Jannach, Thomas Schmitz
      Pages 547-580
  3. Tools and Applications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 581-581
    2. Selection and Configuration of Parallel Portfolios

      • Marius Lindauer, Holger Hoos, Frank Hutter, Kevin Leyton-Brown
      Pages 583-615
    3. An Application of Parallel Satisfiability Solving to the Verification of Complex Embedded Systems

      • Orlando Ferrante, Alberto Ferrari, Christos Sofronis, Leonardo Mangeruca, Luca Benvenuti
      Pages 617-632
    4. Parallel Constraint-Based Local Search: An Application to Designing Resilient Long-Reach Passive Optical Networks

      • Alejandro Arbelaez, Deepak Mehta, Barry O’Sullivan, Luis Quesad
      Pages 633-665

About this book

This is the first book presenting a broad overview of parallelism in constraint-based reasoning formalisms. In recent years, an increasing number of contributions have been made on scaling constraint reasoning thanks to parallel architectures. The goal in this book is to overview these achievements in a concise way, assuming the reader is familiar with the classical, sequential background. It presents work demonstrating the use of multiple resources from single machine multi-core and GPU-based computations to very large scale distributed execution platforms up to 80,000 processing units.

The contributions in the book cover the most important and recent contributions in parallel propositional satisfiability (SAT), maximum satisfiability (MaxSAT), quantified Boolean formulas (QBF), satisfiability modulo theory (SMT), theorem proving (TP), answer set programming (ASP), mixed integer linear programming (MILP),  constraint programming (CP), stochastic local search (SLS), optimal path finding with A*, model checking for linear-time temporal logic (MC/LTL), binary decision diagrams (BDD), and model-based diagnosis (MBD).

The book is suitable for researchers, graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and practitioners who wish to learn about the state of the art in parallel constraint reasoning.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Laboratoire d'informatique (LIX) de l'École polytechnique, Palaiseau, France

    Youssef Hamadi

  • CRIL, CNRS UMR 8188, Université d'Artois, Lens, France

    Lakhdar Sais

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Handbook of Parallel Constraint Reasoning

  • Editors: Youssef Hamadi, Lakhdar Sais

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63516-3

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-63515-6Published: 17 April 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09694-6Published: 01 February 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-63516-3Published: 05 April 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVI, 677

  • Number of Illustrations: 70 b/w illustrations, 48 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Theory of Computation, Operations Research/Decision Theory, Optimization

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