Re: What exactly are "Constraint programming" & "constraint databases" about ?

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> Since it seems that Springer has given free access to its books up to 2004,
> if you are interested you may download this:
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> http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-662-04031-7
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> Nicola
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Thanks, but, well :

(a) that link doesn't seem to immediately give me "free download" (of the table of contents, yeah) and the "look inside" gives me access to only two initial pages of each chapter. (b) I was looking for a bit of introductory stuff that starts off with a good answer, in layman's lingo, to the questions such as "why should I even care" (*) (not with "we define a vocabulary as three sets F,P and M").

(*) question also known as, a.o. :

- what does it do that other databases cannot do ?
- what problem of mine do they intend to solve (or facilitate solving) ?
- why are they being researched ?
 

I can still decide to dig deeper later on. Received on Thu Dec 31 2015 - 11:09:10 CET