Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Constraint satisfaction problems: examples; 3 Constraint programming in a nutshell; 4 Some complete constraint solvers; 5 Local consistency notions; 6 Some incomplete constraint solvers; 7 Constraint propagation algorithms; 8 Search; 9 Issues in constraint programming; Bibliography; Author index; Subject index.