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Artificial intelligence. Robotics. Simulation. Graphics --- Information systems --- Interactive computer systems --- Prolog (Computer program language) --- Computational linguistics --- Systèmes conversationnels (Informatique) --- PROLOG (Langage de programmation) --- Linguistique informatique --- 681.3*H2 --- Natural language processing (Computer science) --- 681.3*I21 --- NLP (Computer science) --- Artificial intelligence --- Electronic data processing --- Human-computer interaction --- Semantic computing --- Computer systems --- Online data processing --- Database management: security; integrity; protection--See also {?681.5*E5} --- Applications and expert systems (Artificial intelligence). Cartography. Games. Industrial automation. Law. Medicine and science. Natural language interfaces. Office automation--See also {681.3*H4}; {681.3*J} --- 681.3*I21 Applications and expert systems (Artificial intelligence). Cartography. Games. Industrial automation. Law. Medicine and science. Natural language interfaces. Office automation--See also {681.3*H4}; {681.3*J} --- 681.3*H2 Database management: security; integrity; protection--See also {?681.5*E5} --- Systèmes conversationnels (Informatique) --- Prolog [Langage de programmation]. --- Prolog [Programmatietaal].

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This book introduces readers to the principles of intelligent decision support systems (IDSS) and how to build them with MiniZinc, a free, open-source constraint programming language. Managing an IDSS project requires an understanding of the system’s design and behaviour. The book enables readers to appreciate what “combinatorial” optimisation problems are, and how modelling a problem provides the basis for solving it. It also presents the main algorithms for tackling decision support problems, discusses their strengths and weaknesses, and explores ways of achieving the necessary scalability when problems become big. Moreover, to support the learning process it allows readers to try out the ideas described in the text on model applications and puzzles. The book highlights the potential benefits of deploying an IDSS. It enables users to recognise the key risks involved and identify which techniques can be applied to minimise them, and to understand the decision support technology sufficiently in order to manage or monitor an IDSS project. It also helps readers distinguish between good sense and mere jargon when dealing with anyone involved in an IDSS project, from sales personnel to software implementers. As such it especially appeals to graduate students and advanced professionals who need to learn how to build an IDSS and to tackle the problems on the way.

Operational research. Game theory --- Mathematical statistics --- Mathematics --- Planning (firm) --- Programming --- Computer architecture. Operating systems --- Computer. Automation --- applicatiebeheer --- apps --- besluitvorming --- computers --- informatica --- mathematische modellen --- externe fixatie (geneeskunde --- econometrie --- operationeel onderzoek --- architectuur (informatica)

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the ESPRIT Working Group CONTESSA Workshop on Constraint Databases and Applications, held in Friedrichshafen, Germany in September 1995. The 10 full revised papers selected for inclusion in this volume are written by and for practitioners, researchers, and application users of core constraint database technology; they can be classified in three sections on expressiveness of the various constraint database models; implementation and optimization issues in areas like spatial databases, geographic information systems, scheduling and routing. This book is the first to focus on the extension of the important new programming paradigm of constraint processing to database design and management.

Constraint databases --- Database management --- Congresses. --- Constraint programming (Computer science) --- Programmation par contraintes --- Bases de données --- Congrès --- Gestion --- Congresses --- Data structures (Computer scienc. --- Geographical information systems. --- Information storage and retrieval systems. --- Database management. --- Computer science. --- Data Structures and Information Theory. --- Geographical Information Systems/Cartography. --- Information Storage and Retrieval. --- Database Management. --- Programming Techniques. --- Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters. --- Informatics --- Science --- Data base management --- Data services (Database management) --- Database management services --- DBMS (Computer science) --- Generalized data management systems --- Services, Database management --- Systems, Database management --- Systems, Generalized database management --- Electronic data processing --- Automatic data storage --- Automatic information retrieval --- Automation in documentation --- Computer-based information systems --- Data processing systems --- Data storage and retrieval systems --- Discovery systems, Information --- Information discovery systems --- Information processing systems --- Information retrieval systems --- Machine data storage and retrieval --- Mechanized information storage and retrieval systems --- Computer systems --- Electronic information resources --- Data libraries --- Digital libraries --- Information organization --- Information retrieval --- Geographical information systems --- GIS (Information systems) --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Geography --- Constraint databases - Congresses. --- Database management - Congresses

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