Constraint Solving and Planning with Picat, 1st ed. 2015 SpringerBriefs in Intelligent Systems Series

This book introduces a new logic-based multi-paradigm programming language that integrates logic programming, functional programming, dynamic programming with tabling, and scripting, for use in solving combinatorial search problems, including CP, SAT, and MIP (mixed integer programming) based solver modules, and a module for planning that is implemented using tabling.

The book is useful for undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and practitioners.

An Overview of Picat.- Basic Constraint Modeling.- Advanced Constraint Modeling.- Dynamic Programming with Tabling.- From Dynamic Programming to Planning.- Planning with Resource-Bounded Search.- Encodings for the Traveling Salesman Problem.- Index.

Appropriate for undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and practitioners

Authors combine academic and practical developer community experience

Exercises encourage readers to practice the presented modeling techniques

Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras