6 1/2 X 9 7/16 in Foreword (Ugo Montanari)
Part I : Foundations< /STRONG>
Chapter 1. Introduction (Francesca Rossi, Peter va n Beek, Toby Walsh)
Chapter 2. Constraint Satisfactio n: An Emerging Paradigm (Eugene C. Freuder, Alan K. Mackworth)
Chapter 3. Constraint Propagation (Christian Bessiere)
Chapter 4. Backtracking Search Algorithms (Peter van Beek)
Chapter 5. Local Search Methods (Holger H. Hoos, Edward Tsang) Chapter 6. Global Constraints (Willem-Jan van Hoeve, Irit Ka triel)
Chapter 7. Tractable Structures for CSPs (Rina Decht er)
Chapter 8. The Complexity of Constraint Languages
(David Cohen, Peter Jeavons)
Chapter 9. Soft C onstraints (Pedro Meseguer, Francesca Rossi, Thomas Schiex)
Chapter 10. Symmetry in Constraint Programming
(Ian P. Ge nt, Karen E. Petrie, Jean-Francois Puget)
Chapter 11. Model ling (Barbara M. Smith)
Part II : Extensions, Lang uages, and Applications

Chapter 12.