Abstraction, Reformulation and Approximation 6th International Sympo
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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Jean-Daniel Zucker Lorenza Saitta (Eds.)
Abstraction, Reformulation and Approximation 6th International Symposium, SARA 2005 Airth Castle, Scotland, UK, July 26-29, 2005 Proceedings
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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Jean-Daniel Zucker LIM&BIO, EPML-CNRS 32 Université Paris 13 74, rue Marcel Cachin, 93017 Bobigny, France E-mail: [email protected] Lorenza Saitta Università del Piemonte Orientale Dipartimento di Informatica Via Bellini 25/G, 15100 Alessandria, Italy E-mail: [email protected]
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CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2, F.4.1, F.3 ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13
0302-9743 3-540-27872-9 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-540-27872-6 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York
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Preface
This volume contains the proceedings of the 6th Symposium on Abstraction, Reformulation and Approximation (SARA 2005). The symposium was held at Airth Castle, Scotland, UK, from July 26th to 29th, 2005, just prior to the IJCAI 2005 conference in Edinburgh. Previous SARA symposia took place at Jackson Hole in Wyoming, USA (1994), Ville d’Estrel in Qubec, Canada (1995), Asilomar in California, USA (1998), Horseshoe Bay, Texas, USA (2000), and Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada (2002). This was then the first time that the symposium was held in Europe. Continuing the tradition started with SARA 2000, the proceedings have been published in the LNAI series of Springer. Abstractions, reformulations and approximations (AR&A) have found applications in a variety of disciplines and problems, including constraint satisfaction, design, diagnosis, machine learning, planning, qualitative reasoning, scheduling, resource allocation and theorem proving, but are also deeply rooted in philosophy and cognitive science. The papers in this volume capture a cross-section of the various facets of the field and of its applications. One of the primary uses of AR&A is oriented to overcome computational intractability. AR&A techniques, however, have also proved useful for
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