New Trends in Constraints

Invited Contributions and Surveys.- Interval Constraints: Results and Perspectives.- A Constraint-Based Language for Virtual Agents.- Constraint (Logic) Programming: A Survey on Research and Applications.- OPL Script: Composing and Controlling Models.- Constraint Propagation and Manipulation.- Some Remarks on Boolean Constraint Propagation.- Abstracting Soft Constraints.- Decomposable Constraints.- Generating Propagation Rules for Finite Domains: A Mixed Approach.- Ways of Maintaining Arc Consistency in Search Using the Cartesian Representation.- Constraint Programming.- Combining Constraint Logic Programming Techniques for Solving Linear Problems.- Quantitative Observables and Averages in Probabilistic Constraint Programming.- Dynamic Constraint Models for Planning and Scheduling Problems.- A Finite Domain CLP Solver on Top of Mercury.- Rule-Based Constraint Programming.- Rule Based Programming with Constraints and Strategies.- Proving Termination of Constraint Solver Programs.- Projection in Adaptive Constraint Handling.