Recent Advances in Constraints

Constraint Propagation.- GCC-Like Restrictions on the Same Constraint.- A Note on Bilattices and Open Constraint Programming.- Pruning by Equally Constrained Variables.- Search.- Trying Again to Fail-First.- Characterization of a New Restart Strategy for Randomized Backtrack Search.- Dynamic Distributed BackJumping.- A Value Ordering Heuristic for Local Search in Distributed Resource Allocation.- Automatically Exploiting Symmetries in Constraint Programming.- New Structural Decomposition Techniques for Constraint Satisfaction Problems.- Applications.- Algorithms for the Maximum Hamming Distance Problem.- A System Prototype for Solving Multi-granularity Temporal CSP.- Computing Equilibria Using Interval Constraints.- Constraint-Based Approaches to the Covering Test Problem.- Super Solutions for Combinatorial Auctions.- Better Propagation for Non-preemptive Single-Resource Constraint Problems.

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