Continuous First-Order Constraint Satisfaction

  • Authors:
  • Stefan Ratschan

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • AISC '02/Calculemus '02 Proceedings of the Joint International Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, Automated Reasoning, and Symbolic Computation
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

This paper shows how to use constraint programming techniques for solving first-order constraints over the reals (i.e., formulas in the first-order predicate language over the structure of the real numbers). More specifically, based on a narrowing operator that implements an arbitrary notion of consistency for atomic constraints over the reals (e.g., box-consistency), the paper provides a narrowing operator for first-order constraints that implements a corresponding notion of first-order consistency, and a solver based on such a narrowing operator. As a consequence, this solver can take over various favorable properties from the field of constraint programming.