Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming – CP’99 [electronic resource] : 5th International Conference, CP’99, Alexandria, VA, USA, October 11-14, 1999. Proceedings /

Invited Papers -- The Rough Guide to Constraint Propagation -- Non-binary Constraints -- The Theory of Discrete Lagrange Multipliers for Nonlinear Discrete Optimization -- Regular Papers -- Operational Equivalence of CHR Programs and Constraints -- Automatic Generation of Constraint Propagation Algorithms for Small Finite Domains -- Excluding Symmetries in Constraint-Based Search -- On Forward Checking for Non-binary Constraint Satisfaction -- Enforcing Arc Consistency on Global Constraints by Solving Subproblems on the Fly -- Exploiting Bipartiteness to Identify Yet Another Tractable Subclass of CSP -- Towards a Complete Classification of Tractability in Point Algebras for Nonlinear Time -- A Meta-Heuristic Factory for Vehicle Routing Problems -- Closure Functions and Width 1 Problems -- An Overview of HAL -- Cost-Based Domain Filtering -- Resource Allocation in Networks Using Abstraction and Constraint Satisfaction Techniques -- Optimal Distributed Arc-Consistency -- The Goldilocks Problem -- Multistep Filtering Operators for Ordinary Differential Equations -- A Framework for Constraint Programming Based Column Generation -- Improving a Heuristic Repair Method for Large-Scale School Timetabling Problems -- Applying Constraint Programming to Protein Structure Determination -- Partition-Based Lower Bound for Max-CSP -- Constraint Diagram Reasoning -- Automatic Generation of Music Programs -- Search Procedures and Parallelism in Constraint Programming -- Ensuring a Relevant Visiting Order of the Leaf Nodes during a Tree Search -- Tight Cooperation and Its Application in Piecewise Linear Optimization -- Arc Consistency for Global Cardinality Constraints with Costs -- The Brélaz Heuristic and Optimal Static Orderings -- A Fixpoint Definition of Dynamic Constraint Satisfaction -- Solving Satisfiability Problems on FPGAs Using Experimental Unit Propagation -- On the Behavior and Application of Constraint Weighting -- Simulated Annealing with Asymptotic Convergence for Nonlinear Constrained Global Optimization -- Poster Papers -- On SAT01 Problem -- An Interval Constraint Approach to Handle Parametric Ordinary Differential Equations for Decision Support -- CSPlib: A Benchmark Library for Constraints -- Validated Constraint Compilation -- Automated Theorem Proving with Disjunctive Constraints -- Rewriting Numeric Constraint Satisfaction Problems for Consistency Algorithms -- Intelligent Domain Splitting for CSPs with Ordered Domains -- Frequency Assignment for Cellular Mobile Systems Using Constraint Satisfaction Techniques.