Constraint hierarchies

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

Volumn 1106, Issue , 1996, Pages 23-62

  Borning, Alan ^a   Freeman Benson, Bjorn ^a   Wilson, Molly ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; CONSTRAINT THEORY;

ARBITRARY NUMBER; CONSTRAINT HIERARCHY; ERROR CONDITION; SIMULATION PACKAGES; THEORY OF CONSTRAINT; USER INTERFACE TOOLKIT;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 84879606312     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-61479-6_17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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