Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming - CP*99: 5th International Conference, CP*99, Alexandria, VA, USA, October 11-14, 1999 Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (1713))

Jaffar, Joxan

ISBN 10: 3540666265 / ISBN 13: 9783540666264

Published by Springer, 1999

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• Title: Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming - CP*99: 5th International Conference, CP*99, Alexandria, VA, USA, October 11-14, 1999 Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (1713))
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540666265
• ISBN 13: 9783540666264
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Like New
• Book Type: book

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Thisis theconferencerecordfortheFifthInternationalConferenceonPrinciples and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP'99), held in Alexandria, Virginia, USA, on October 11-14, 1999. The series of CP conferences deal with original papers on most aspects of constraint programming. After a few annual wo- shops, CP'95 took place in Cassis, France, CP'96 in Cambridge, USA, CP'97 in Schloss Hagenberg, Austria, and CP'98 in Pisa, Italy. Thisyearatotalof97papersweresubmitted,and30wereacceptedasregular papers.In addition,therewerethreeinvitedpapers,byKrzysztofApt, Christian Bessi' erre and Benjamin Wah, and eight poster papers, included to showcase yet more interesting directions. The posters appear as short papers in this volume. In the conference, there was an invited tutorial, and following the conference, there were ?ve workshops. All papers were reviewed by an excellent program committeeandtheir designatedreferees.Detailedemaildiscussionsprecededthe actual programcommittee meeting, which was held near the conference location in mid-July, 1999. The CP conferences have had two major directions: constraint satisfaction problems and programming with constraints. This year, the submission/acce- ancebreakdownwassubjectivelyestimatedat56/19and33/8,respectively,with the remaining ratio of 8/3 for application papers. The regional distribution of (?rst) authors for all submissions was 21 for France, 15 for Germany, 12 for USA, 7 for UK, 6 for Japan, 5 for Spain, 4 for Australia and Singapore, 3 each for Italy, Portugal, Sweden, and Switzerland, 2 for Canada and Belgium, and ?nally, one each for Greece, Finland, Hong Kong,Indonesia, Ireland, Korea,and the Netherlands.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programmingm CP'99, held in Alexandria, Virginia, USA in October 1999. The 30 revised full papers presented together with three invited papers and eight posters were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book from a total of 97 papers submitted. All current aspects of constraint programming and applications in various areas are addressed.