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Integration of declarative and constraint programming

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2007

PETRA HOFSTEDT  and
PETER PEPPER
PETRA HOFSTEDT
Affiliation:
Technische Universität Berlin, Sekr. FR 5-13, Franklinstr. 28/29, D-10587 Berlin, Germany (e-mail: ph@cs.tu-berlin.de, pepper@cs.tu-berlin.de)
PETER PEPPER
Affiliation:
Technische Universität Berlin, Sekr. FR 5-13, Franklinstr. 28/29, D-10587 Berlin, Germany (e-mail: ph@cs.tu-berlin.de, pepper@cs.tu-berlin.de)
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Abstract

Combining a set of existing constraint solvers into an integrated system of cooperating solvers is a useful and economic principle to solve hybrid constraint problems. In this paper we show that this approach can also be used to integrate different language paradigms into a unified framework. Furthermore, we study the syntactic, semantic and operational impacts of this idea for the amalgamation of declarative and constraint programming.

Keywords

declarative languagesconstraintscooperative constraint solvinglanguage integrationmultiparadigm constraint programming languages

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Theory and Practice of Logic Programming , Volume 7 , Issue 1-2 , January 2007 , pp. 93 - 121
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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