2011/09/08 by Ozgur Akgun, Alan M. Frisch, Akgun, Ozgur +7
Computer Science · #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Programming Languages (cs.PL) #cs.AI #cs.PL
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1109.1774
arxiv created 2011/09/08 · arxiv updated 2015/03/19
Automating the constraint modelling process is one of the key challenges facing the constraints field, and one of the principal obstacles preventing widespread adoption of constraint solving. This paper focuses on the refinement-based approach to automated modelling, where a user specifies a problem in an abstract constraint specification language and it is then automatically refined into a constraint model. In particular, we revisit the Conjure system that first appeared in prototype form in 2005 and present a new implementation with a much greater coverage of the specification language Essence.