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| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/M66110/01 |
| Title: |
UK CONSTRAINT NETWORK: CONSNET |
| Principal Investigator: |
Professor D Cohen |
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| Department: |
Computer Science |
| Organisation: |
Royal Holloway, Univ of London |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research |
| Starts: |
17 September 1999 |
Ends: |
16 September 2001 |
Value (£): |
40,202
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Artificial Intelligence Technologies |
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| EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications: |
| No relevance to Underpinning Sectors |
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Summary |
We propose to establish a network of researchers aiming to drive forward the technology and skills available in the UK to tackle computational problems involving constraints. This broad class of problems includes many difficult combinatorial problems arising in a wide variety of industrial and scientific applications. Examples include scheduling, resource allocation, vehicle routing, channel assignment in telecommunications networks, and structure matching in biomolecular databases.
The UK has a strong research community in this emerging area, but there has previously been little collaboration between different groups, and no strategic overview of how this technology should be developed. The proposed network will bring together at least eight "active sites" with researchers working in this area, as well as providing a point of contact to enable industrial and other potential end-users to benefit from this expertise. The aims of the network are to increase awareness of the potential of using constraints-based technology, to encourage cross-fertilisation of ideas and new multi-disciplinary research proposals, to publicise and learn from existing successful applications and from problems which are currently out of reach, and to identify and refine the vision of this research community for the long-term future development of constraints technology.
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| Final Report Summary |
We propose to establish a network of researchers aiming to drive forward the technology and skills available in the UK to tackle computational problems involving constraints. This broad class of problems includes many difficult combinatorial problems arising in a wide variety of industrial and scientific applications. Examples include scheduling, resource allocation, vehicle routing, channel assignment in telecommunications networks, and structure matching in biomolecular databases.
The UK has a strong research community in this emerging area, but there has previously been little collaboration between different groups, and no strategic overview of how this technology should be developed. The proposed network will bring together at least eight "active sites" with researchers working in this area, as well as providing a point of contact to enable industrial and other potential end-users to benefit from this expertise. The aims of the network are to increase awareness of the potential of using constraints-based technology, to encourage cross-fertilisation of ideas and new multi-disciplinary research proposals, to publicise and learn from existing successful applications and from problems which are currently out of reach, and to identify and refine the vision of this research community for the long-term future development of constraints technology.
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| Organisation Website: |
http://www.rhul.ac.uk |
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