Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems

Download or read book Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems written by Willem-Jan van Hoeve and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-05-17 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems, CPAIOR 2009, held in Pittsburgh, PA, USA, in May 2009. The 20 revised full papers and 10 extended abstracts presented together with 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. The papers describe current research in the fields of constraint programming, artificial intelligence, and operations research and present new techniques or new applications in combinatorial optimization, thus exploring ways of solving large-scale, practical optimization problems through integration and hybridization of the fields' different techniques.