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This paper studies the possibilities made open by the use of Lazy Clause Generation (LCG) based approaches to Constraint Programming (CP) for tackling sequential classical planning. We propose a novel CP model based on seminal ideas on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Anubhav Singh , Miquel Ramirez , Nir Lipovetzky , Peter J. Stuckey

CLPGUI is a graphical user interface for visualizing and interacting with constraint logic programs over finite domains. In CLPGUI, the user can control the execution of a CLP program through several views of constraints, of finite domain…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Francois Fages

PRISM is an extension of Prolog with probabilistic predicates and built-in support for expectation-maximization learning. Constraint Handling Rules (CHR) is a high-level programming language based on multi-headed multiset rewrite rules. In…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2010-07-23 Jon Sneyers , Wannes Meert , Joost Vennekens , Yoshitaka Kameya , Taisuke Sato

In classical CLP(FD) systems, domains of variables are completely known at the beginning of the constraint propagation process. However, in systems interacting with an external environment, acquiring the whole domains of variables before…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Marco Alberti , Marco Gavanelli , Evelina Lamma , Paola Mello , Michela Milano

This paper investigates the relationship between the Logical Algorithms language (LA) of Ganzinger and McAllester and Constraint Handling Rules (CHR). We present a translation schema from LA to CHR-rp: CHR with rule priorities, and show…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2009-01-12 Leslie De Koninck

Higher-order constructs extend the expressiveness of first-order (Constraint) Logic Programming ((C)LP) both syntactically and semantically. At the same time assertions have been in use for some time in (C)LP systems helping programmers…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2014-06-03 Nataliia Stulova , José F. Morales , Manuel V. Hermenegildo

Temporal reasoning and planning are essential capabilities for large language models (LLMs), yet most existing benchmarks evaluate them in isolation and under limited forms of complexity. To address this gap, we introduce the Temporal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Zifeng Ding , Sikuan Yan , Zhangdie Yuan , Xianglong Hu , Fangru Lin , Andreas Vlachos

Program transformation is an appealing technique which allows to improve run-time efficiency, space-consumption, and more generally to optimize a given program. Essentially, it consists of a sequence of syntactic program manipulations which…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Maurizio Gabbrielli , Maria Chiara Meo , Paolo Tacchella , Herbert Wiklicky

Temporal Logic (TL) guided control problems have gained interests in recent years. By using the TL, one can specify a wide range of temporal constraints on the system and is widely used in cyber-physical systems. On the other hand, Control…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Guang Yang , Roberto Tron , Calin Belta

The success of several constraint-based modeling languages such as OPL, ZINC, or COMET, appeals for better software engineering practices, particularly in the testing phase. This paper introduces a testing framework enabling automated test…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Nadjib Lazaar , Arnaud Gotlieb , Lebbah Yahia

Constrained clustering is a semi-supervised task that employs a limited amount of labelled data, formulated as constraints, to incorporate domain-specific knowledge and to significantly improve clustering accuracy. Previous work has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Pouya Shati , Eldan Cohen , Sheila McIlraith

Constraint Programming developed within Logic Programming in the Eighties; nowadays all Prolog systems encompass modules capable of handling constraint programming on finite domains demanding their solution to a constraint solver. This work…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Enrico Santi , Fabio Tardivo , Agostino Dovier , Andrea Formisano

Language models (LMs) can generate code but cannot guarantee its correctness$\unicode{x2014}$often producing outputs that violate type safety, program invariants, or other semantic properties. Constrained decoding offers a solution by…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Shaan Nagy , Timothy Zhou , Nadia Polikarpova , Loris D'Antoni

In this paper, we address the problem of defining a fixpoint semantics for Constraint Handling Rules (CHR) that captures the behavior of both simplification and propagation rules in a sound and complete way with respect to their declarative…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-08-02 Rémy Haemmerlé

This paper is concerned with rule-based programs that go wrong. The unwanted behavior of rule applications is non-termination or failure of a computation. We propose a static program analysis of the non-termination problem for recursion in…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Thom Fruehwirth

Confluence is a fundamental property of Constraint Handling Rules (CHR) since, as in other rewriting formalisms, it guarantees that the computations are not dependent on rule application order, and also because it implies the logical…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2012-10-10 Rémy Haemmerlé

The most advanced implementation of adaptive constraint processing with Constraint Handling Rules (CHR) allows the application of intelligent search strategies to solve Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSP). This presentation compares an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Armin Wolf

Constraint logic grammars provide a powerful formalism for expressing complex logical descriptions of natural language phenomena in exact terms. Describing some of these phenomena may, however, require some form of graded distinctions which…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Stefan Riezler

Higher-order constructs extend the expressiveness of first-order (Constraint) Logic Programming ((C)LP) both syntactically and semantically. At the same time assertions have been in use for some time in (C)LP systems helping programmers…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2014-04-17 Nataliia Stulova , José F. Morales , Manuel V. Hermenegildo

Text clustering serves as a fundamental technique for organizing and interpreting unstructured textual data, particularly in contexts where manual annotation is prohibitively costly. With the rapid advancement of Large Language Models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Chen Huang , Guoxiu He