EAN: 9783540218364

INTEGRATION OF AI AND OR TECHNIQUES IN CONSTRAI...

This volume contains the proceedings of the First International Conference on
IntegrationofAIandORTechniquesinConstraintProgrammingforCombina- rialOptimisation Problems.This
new conferencefollows the seriesof CP-AI-OR International Workshops on Integration of AI and OR
Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimisation Problems held in Ferrara
(1999)  Paderborn (2000)  Ashford (2001)  Le Croisic (2002)  and Montreal (2003). The success
of the previous workshops has demonstrated that CP-AI-OR is bec- ing a major forum for
exchanging ideas and methodologiesfrom both ?elds. The aim of this new conference is to bring
together researchersfrom AI and OR  and to give them the opportunity to show how the
integration of techniques from AI and OR can lead to interesting results on large scale and
complex problems. The integration of techniques from Arti?cial Intelligence and Operations -
search has provided e?ective algorithms for tackling complex and large scale combinatorial
problems with signi?cant improvements in terms of e?ciency  scalability and optimality. The
bene?t of this integration has been shown in applications such as hoist scheduling  rostering 
dynamic scheduling and vehicle routing. At the programming and modelling levels  most
constraint languages embed OR techniques to reason about collections of constraints 
so-calledglobal constraints. Some languages also provide support for hybridization allowing the
programmer to build new integrated algorithms. The resulting multi-paradigm
programmingframeworkcombines the ?exibility and modelling facilities of C- straint Programming
with the special purpose and e?cient methods from - erations Research.

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