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

On 2015-12-31 10:09:10 +0000, Erwin said:

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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 ?

Have you tried browsing the book on Google Books? §1.4-§1.7 (which you should be able to access almost entirely) do a good job, I think, explaining what it is all about.

Nicola

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