Recent Advances in Constraints [electronic resource] : Joint ERCIM/CologNet International Workshop on Constraint Solving and Constraint Logic Programming Cork, Ireland, June 19–21, 2002. Selected Papers / edited by Barry O’Sullivan.

Abstract Verification and Debugging of Constraint Logic Programs -- CGRASS: A System for Transforming Constraint Satisfaction Problems -- Interchangeability in Soft CSPs -- Towards Automated Reasoning on the Properties of Numerical Constraints -- Domain-Heuristics for Arc-Consistency Algorithms -- Computing Explanations and Implications in Preference-Based Configurators -- Constraint Processing Offers Improved Expressiveness and Inference for Interactive Expert Systems -- A Note on Redundant Rules in Rule-Based Constraint Programming -- A Study of Encodings of Constraint Satisfaction Problems with 0/1 Variables -- A Local Search Algorithm for Balanced Incomplete Block Designs -- The Effect of Nogood Recording in DPLL-CBJ SAT Algorithms -- POOC — A Platform for Object-Oriented Constraint Programming -- A Coordination-Based Framework for Distributed Constraint Solving -- Visopt ShopFloor: Going Beyond Traditional Scheduling.