Recent Advances in Constraints

From Marriages to Coalitions: A Soft CSP Approach.- Solving CSPs with Naming Games.- An Efficient Decision Procedure for Functional Decomposable Theories Based on Dual Constraints.- Challenges in Constraint-Based Analysis of Hybrid Systems.- From Rules to Constraint Programs with the Rules2CP Modelling Language.- Combining Symmetry Breaking and Global Constraints.- Iterative Flattening Search on RCPSP/max Problems: Recent Developments.- Robust Solutions in Unstable Optimization Problems.- IDB-ADOPT: A Depth-First Search DCOP Algorithm.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed and extended post-workshop proceedings of the 13th Annual ERCIM International Workshop on Constraint Solving and Constraint Logic Programming, CSCLP 2008, held in Rome, Italy, in June 2008.
The 9 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 14 initial submissions. The papers in this volume present original research results, as well as applications, in many aspects of constraint solving and constraint logic programming. Research topics that can be found in the papers are ¯rst-order constraints, symmetry breaking, global constraints, constraint optimization problems, distributed constraint solving problems, soft constraints, as well as the analysis of application domains such as cumulative resource problems and hybrid systems.