A perspective of constraint-based reasoning : an introductory tutorial /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Güsgen, Hans Werner, 1959-
Other Authors: Hertzberg, J. (Joachim), 1958-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, c1992.
Series:Lecture notes in computer science ; 597.
Lecture notes in computer science. Lecture notes in artificial intelligence.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. What this Text Is About
  • 1.2. How this Text Is Organized
  • 1.3. A Note for the Hasty Reader
  • 2. The Office World. 2.1. Types of Spatial Reasoning. 2.2. The Basic Spatial Relations. 2.3. Higher-Dimensional Models. 2.4. Some Other Work
  • 3. Constraint Concepts. 3.1. Constraints and Networks. 3.2. Solutions and their Generating Sets. 3.3. Consistency. 3.4. Related Work: Constraints and Logic. 3.5. Related Work: Reflective Systems
  • 4. Constraint Relaxation. 4.1. Relaxation in Dynamic Networks - The Very Idea. 4.2. An Example. 4.3. More about the Metric. 4.4. Related Work: Nonmonotonic Logical Reasoning
  • 5. Backtracking Approaches. 5.1. A Brute Force Approach: Chronological Backtracking. 5.2. Improving Chronological Backtracking. 5.3. Summarizing the Main Points
  • 6. From Simple Filtering to Tagging. 6.1. A Simple Serial Filtering Algorithm. 6.2. Filtering with Tagging. 6.3. Conclusion
  • 7. Approaches to Filtering in Parallel.
  • 7.1. A Simple Parallel Filtering Algorithm. 7.2. Parallel Filtering with Tagging. 7.3. Massively Parallel Filtering. 7.4. Summarizing
  • 8. Optimization Approaches. 8.1. Simulated Annealing. 8.2. Connectionist Optimization: Boltzmann Machines. 8.3. Conclusion: A Perspective of Optimization
  • 9. Instead of a Conclusion.