Fortgeschrittenen Praktikum (FoPra)
Saarland University
Computer Science
Programming Systems
Alice
Mozart
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Responsible professor: Gert Smolka
Time frame: July - November 2005
Description:
Alice provides an interface to Gecode,
a state-of-the-art constraint programming library. Using this interface, hard
combinatorial problems can be modelled and solved. Gecode features a
comprehensive set of propagators for finite domain and finite set
constraints, as well as abstractions for programmable search.
Currently, the Alice documentation contains only an API reference of
the propagators in the Gecode library. This project aims at a
tutorial-style, step-by-step introduction to constraint programming in
Alice.
The tutorial should cover finite domain and finite set constraints,
including selection constraints. The Mozart/Oz system comes with
extensive documentation on constraint programming:
These
documents will serve as a basis for the Alice tutorials. However, an
important goal is to give natural Alice formulations of the problems,
rather than a literal translation of the Oz code. Further literature
on modelling with constraints and advanced topics such as symmetry
breaking and redundant constraints should be taken into account.
The resulting document will be available in PDF as well as HTML
format. In addition to the actual documentation, a document describing
the weaknesses and strengths of the Alice/Gecode interface, compared
to Mozart/Oz, will be provided.
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