Abstraction, Reformulation, and Approximation: 7th International Symposium, SARA 2007, Whistler, Canada, July 18-21, 2007. Proceedings

Abstract

This is a subject that is as hot as a snake in a wagon rut, offering as it does huge potentiality in the field of computer programming. That’s why this book, which constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Abstraction, Reformulation, and Approximation, held in Whistler, Canada, in July 2007, will undoubtedly prove so popular among researchers and professionals in relevant fields. With 26 revised full papers presented, together with the abstracts of 3 invited papers and 13 research summaries, there is more than enough material here for even the most hardened expert to digest. All current aspects of abstraction, reformulation, and approximation in the context of human common-sense reasoning, problem solving, and efficiently reasoning in complex domains are addressed. Among the application fields of these techniques are automated reasoning, automatic programming, cognitive modeling, constraint programming, design, diagnosis, machine learning, model-based reasoning, planning, reasoning, scheduling, search, theorem proving, and tutoring.