Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming

A Modular Architecture for Hybrid Planning with Theories.- Teaching Constraint Programming.- One Problem, Two Structures, Six Solvers, and Ten Years of Personnel Scheduling.- Concurrent Constraint Programming Research Programmes - Redux.- On Broken Triangles.- Using CP in Automatic Test Generation for ABB Robotics' Paint Control System.- On Compiling CNF into Decision-DNNF.- A Complete Solver for Constraint Games.- Encoding Linear Constraints into SAT.- Efficient Application of Max-SAT Resolution on Inconsistent Subsets.- Sequential Time Splitting and Bounds Communication for a Portfolio of Optimization Solvers.- Scoring-Based Neighborhood Dominance for the Subgraph Isomorphism Problem.- Linking Prefixes and Suffixes for Constraints Encoded Using Automata with Accumulators.- The Propagation Depth of Local Consistency.- The Balance Constraint Family.- Experimental Comparison of BTD and Intelligent Backtracking: Towards an Automatic Per-instance Algorithm Selector.- Solving Intensional Weighted CSPs by Incremental Optimization with BDDs.- On Backdoors to Tractable Constraint Languages.- Nested Constraint Programs.- Beyond Consistency and Substitutability.- Subexponential Time Complexity of CSP with Global Constraints.- A New Characterization of Relevant Intervals for Energetic Reasoning.- A Declarative Paradigm for Robust Cumulative Scheduling.- Improving DPOP with Branch Consistency for Solving Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems.- Constraint-Based Lagrangian Relaxation.- Loop Untangling.- Discriminating Instance Generation for Automated Constraint Model Selection.- Aggregating CP-nets with Unfeasible Outcomes.- The StockingCost Constraint.- Scalable Parallel Numerical CSP Solver.- Tree-Decompositions with Connected Clusters for Solving Constraint Networks.- CIP and MIQP Models for the Load Balancing Nurse-to-Patient Assignment Problem.- On the Erd?os Discrepancy Problem.- Towards Practical Infinite StreamConstraint Programming: Applications and Implementation.- An Increasing-Nogoods Global Constraint for Symmetry Breaking During Search.- Memory-Efficient Tree Size Prediction for Depth-First Search in Graphical Models.- Higher-Order Consistencies through GAC on Factor Variables.- Incremental QBF Solving.- Incremental Cardinality Constraints for MaxSAT.- Reducing the Branching in a Branch and Bound Algorithm for the Maximum Clique Problem.- Core-Guided MaxSAT with Soft Cardinality Constraints.- The IntSat Method for Integer Linear Programming.- Automatically Improving Constraint Models in Savile Row through Associative-Commutative Common Subexpression Elimination.- Improving GAC-4 for Table and MDD Constraints.- Improvement of the Embarrassingly Parallel Search for Data Centers.- Stochastic MiniZinc.- Decomposing Utility Functions in Bounded Max-Sum for Distributed Constraint Optimization.- Insights into Parallelism with Intensive Knowledge Sharing.- The Non-overlapping Constraint between Objects Described by Non-linear Inequalities.- Improving Relational Consistency Algorithms Using Dynamic Relation Partitioning.- Domain Views for Constraint Programming.- Global Constraints in Distributed CSP: Concurrent GAC and Explanations in ABT.- The Impact of Wireless Communication on Distributed Constraint Satisfaction.- Adaptive Parameterized Consistency for Non-binary CSPs by Counting Supports.- Proactive Workload Dispatching on the EURORA Supercomputer.- Scheduling B2B Meetings.- Solving a Judge Assignment Problem Using Conjunctions of Global Cost Functions.- Worst-Case Scheduling of Software Tasks: A Constraint Optimization Model to Support Performance Testing.- Continuous Casting Scheduling with Constraint Programming.- Case Study: Constraint Programming in a System Level Synthesis Framework.- Scheduling Agents Using Forecast Call Arrivals at Hydro-Qu´ebec's Call Centers.- Deployment of MobileWireless Sensor Networks for Crisis Management: AConstraint-Based Local Search Approach.- Air Traffic Controller Shift Scheduling by Reduction to CSP, SAT and SAT-Related Problems.- Optimization Bounds from Binary Decision Diagrams.- Reformulation Based MaxSAT Robustness.- Probabilistic Constraints for Nonlinear Inverse Problems.- Multivalued Decision Diagrams for Sequencing Problems.- Robustness and Stability in Constraint Programming under Dynamism and Uncertainty.- Monotone Temporal Planning: Tractability, Extensions and Applications.- Anytime AND/OR Depth-First Search for Combinatorial Optimization.- View-Based Propagator Derivation.