Domain-Independent Scheme for Constraint Solver Extension
Date: July 17th (Wednesday)
Time: ??.??
Abstract
Constraint Logic Programming (CLP) is a class of programming languages
inheriting declarativity from logic programming and efficiency from
constraint solving. The CLP scheme enables to design applications
by declaring relations (the constraints) between high-level objects.
However, constraints are restricted to formulae handled by solvers.
Thus, the declarativity may be jeopardized due to the scope of
solvers.
SoleX is a mechanism for extending constraint solvers in order to
handle new function symbols on the computation domain. This extension
consists in building two kinds of rule-based transformations: domain
independent rules for symbolically processing constraints with
additional function symbols and rules for completing the information
on the domain with the usual interpretation of these additional
functions. Some extensions of computation domains have already been
solved in order to demonstrate the broad scope of SoleX potential
applications.
