Handbook of Constraint Programming Foundations of Artificial Intelligence
Edited by
Francesca Rossi
University of Padova
Italy
Peter van Beek
University of Waterloo
Canada
Toby Walsh
National ICTA Australia & University of New South Wales
Australia
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