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Constraint Logic Programming over unions of Constraint theories

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Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming — CP96 (CP 1996)

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In this paper, we propose an extension of the Jaffar-Lassez Constraint Logic Programming scheme that operates with unions of constraint theories with different signatures and decides the satisfiability of mixed constraints by appropriately combining the constraint solvers of the component theories. We describe the extended scheme and provide logical and operational semantics for it along the lines of those given for the original scheme. Then we show how the main soundness and completeness results of Constraint Logic Programming lift to our extension.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1304 W. Springfield Ave., 61801, Urbana, IL, USA

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Tinelli, C., Harandi, M. (1996). Constraint Logic Programming over unions of Constraint theories. In: Freuder, E.C. (eds) Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming — CP96. CP 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1118. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61551-2_92

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