Article ID: | iaor20023472 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 8 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 7 |
End Page Number: | 17 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2002 |
Journal: | Journal of Heuristics |
Authors: | Lodi Andrea, Focacci Filippo, Milano Michela |
Keywords: | constraint handling languages |
In recent years, the integration of techniques from Artificial Intelligence and Operations Research has shown to improve the solutions of complex and large scale combinatorial optimization problems, in terms of efficiency, scalability and optimality. In this context, Constraint Programming is an emerging discipline situated at the confluence of the two fields that has been recognized as a suitable environment for achieving such an integration. This paper briefly presents the integration directions explored in the literature, and provides some pointers to relevant work in these directions.