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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the First International Workshop on Global Constraints Optimization and Costraint Satisfaction, COCOS 2002, held in Valbonne-Sophia Antipolis, France in October 2002.
The 15 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers address current issues in global optimization, mathematical programming, and constraint programming; they are grouped in topical sections on optimization, constraint satisfaction, and benchmarking.
List of contents
Invited Lectures.- Global Optimization and Constraint Satisfaction: The Branch-and-Reduce Approach.- GlobSol: History, Composition, and Advice on Use.- Optimisation.- LaGO - An Object Oriented Library for Solving MINLPs.- Solving Global Optimization Problems over Polynomials with GloptiPoly 2.1.- Rigorous Error Bounds for the Optimal Value of Linear Programming Problems.- Minimal and Maximal Real Roots of Parametric Polynomials Using Interval Analysis.- D.C. Programming for Solving a Class of Global Optimization Problems via Reformulation by Exact Penalty.- Symbolic-Interval Heuristic for Bound-Constrained Minimization.- A Global Constrained Optimization Algorithm for Engine Calibration.- Numerical Behavior of a Stabilized SQP Method for Degenerate NLP Problems.- Constraint Satisfaction.- A New Method for the Global Solution of Large Systems of Continuous Constraints.- Consistency Techniques for the Localization of a Satellite.- Computing Interval Parameter Bounds from Fallible Measurements Using Overdetermined (Tall) Systems of Nonlinear Equations.- Maintaining Global Hull Consistency with Local Search for Continuous CSPs.- Numerical Constraint Satisfaction Problems with Non-isolated Solutions.- Benchmarking.- Benchmarking Global Optimization and Constraint Satisfaction Codes.- Quality Assurance and Global Optimization.
