Recent Advances in Constraints

Abstract Verification and Debugging of Constraint Logic Programs.- CGRASS: A System for Transforming Constraint Satisfaction Problems.- Interchangeability in Soft CSPs.- Towards Automated Reasoning on the Properties of Numerical Constraints.- Domain-Heuristics for Arc-Consistency Algorithms.- Computing Explanations and Implications in Preference-Based Configurators.- Constraint Processing Offers Improved Expressiveness and Inference for Interactive Expert Systems.- A Note on Redundant Rules in Rule-Based Constraint Programming.- A Study of Encodings of Constraint Satisfaction Problems with 0/1 Variables.- A Local Search Algorithm for Balanced Incomplete Block Designs.- The Effect of Nogood Recording in DPLL-CBJ SAT Algorithms.- POOC — A Platform for Object-Oriented Constraint Programming.- A Coordination-Based Framework for Distributed Constraint Solving.- Visopt ShopFloor: Going Beyond Traditional Scheduling.