Lectures on Constraint Programming
by Francois Fages 
 Equipe-projet Contraintes
INRIA
Paris-Rocquencourt
 
Course
on Constraint
Programming (24h) Master Parisien de Recherche en Informatique,
Paris.
Introductory articles (in
French):
  - Chapitre
"Programmation
logique et contraintes" de l'encyclopédie Vuibert.
- Article Des contraintes au programme. Revue
littéraire Actes de Savoirs, PUF. 2007.
 
Lecture
notes 
on Constraint Logic
Programming
Programming
project  
Slides 
  - Introduction
- Logical
background, complete theories and decidability of constraint
languages
- Constraint
Solving by simplification and by domain reduction
- Symmetries
- Constraint
Logic Programming (CLP): operational and fixpoint semantics,
abstract
interpretation, constraint-based model checking
- Global constraints (Nicolas Beldiceanu)
 
- Logical semantics of CLP programs,
automated deduction,
higher-order
-  Concurrent
Constraint Programming (CC): operational semantics and examples
-  Denotational semantics and
constraint propagation
-   Logical semantics in Linear
Logic
EJCP : Course at  Ecole Jeunes
Chercheurs en
Programmation (6
hours).