Eplex: Harnessing Mathematical Programming Solvers for Constraint Logic Programming

The eplex library of the ECLi PSe Constraint Logic Programming platform allows the integration of Mathematical Programming techniques with its native Constraint Logic Programming techniques within the same unified framework. It provides an interface to state-of-the-art Mathematical Programming solvers, and a set of programming primitives that allow ‘hybrid’ techniques to be easily expressed. This paper presents these facilities, and discusses some associated implementation issues.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: CP
• Authors: Kish Shen, Joachim Schimpf
• Keywords: Constraint Logic Programming, CP 2005, Mathematical Programming, Programming Languages, Programming Techniques