Recent Advances in Constraints [electronic resource] : Joint ERCIM/CoLogNet International Workshop on Constraint Solving and Constraint Logic Programming, CSCLP 2004, Lausanne, Switzerland, June 23-25, 2004, Revised Selected and Invited Papers / edited by Boi V. Faltings, Adrian Petcu, François Fages, Francesca Rossi.

Constraint Propagation -- GCC-Like Restrictions on the Same Constraint -- A Note on Bilattices and Open Constraint Programming -- Pruning by Equally Constrained Variables -- Search -- Trying Again to Fail-First -- Characterization of a New Restart Strategy for Randomized Backtrack Search -- Dynamic Distributed BackJumping -- A Value Ordering Heuristic for Local Search in Distributed Resource Allocation -- Automatically Exploiting Symmetries in Constraint Programming -- New Structural Decomposition Techniques for Constraint Satisfaction Problems -- Applications -- Algorithms for the Maximum Hamming Distance Problem -- A System Prototype for Solving Multi-granularity Temporal CSP -- Computing Equilibria Using Interval Constraints -- Constraint-Based Approaches to the Covering Test Problem -- Super Solutions for Combinatorial Auctions -- Better Propagation for Non-preemptive Single-Resource Constraint Problems.