Constraint logic programming

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2407, Issue , 2002, Pages 512-532

  Wallace, Mark ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; COMPUTER CIRCUITS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

CONSTRAINT LOGIC PROGRAMMING; CONSTRAINT PROPAGATION; CONSTRAINT SOLVERS; TWO WAYS;

LOGIC PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84867655196     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45628-7_19     Document Type: Article

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