CT Lectures & Slides
For administrative reasons, attendance at the first two-hour-lecture is mandatory: you must contact Pierre Flener if you cannot make it for a convincing case of force majeure, ideally in advance. Attendance at all other lectures as well as at the labs and lessons is highly recommended.
The main objective of lectures is to cover the required theoretical content of the course, illustrated by as many examples as possible. Attendance is highly recommended. The essential aspects (in the eyes of the main instructor) of the course will be pointed out. Common misunderstandings will be discussed. The slides are not self-contained at all: they are only a support for the lectures, but not equivalent to their much more detailed content, so you ought to take notes.
PhD students can study most of the material by themselves after the first few lectures, and are relieved of the assignment and exam duties in exchange for a more sophisticated project (possibly in connection with their PhD research).
There is no planned correspondence between the scheduled lectures and the topics of the course: a lecture may span two topics in the table below. Slides will be put online immediately before a lecture (but are not distributed in printed form), hence you can always figure out approximately where we currently are.
Topic | Slides | Extra Material | Instructor |
---|---|---|---|
Introduction & Overview | L01.pdf![]() |
Pierre Flener | |
Gecode Primer | L02.pdf![]() |
Chapters 1, 2, 3, 8, 9 of Ref 0![]() |
Pierre Flener |
Basic Modelling | L03.pdf![]() |
Chapters 4, 6 of Ref 0![]() |
Pierre Flener |
Consistency | L04.pdf![]() |
Appendix A of Ref 1![]() |
Pierre Flener |
Propagation | L05.pdf![]() ![]() |
Chapter 2 of Ref 1![]() ![]() |
Pierre Flener |
Search | L06.pdf![]() |
Chapter 3 of Ref 1![]() ![]() |
Pierre Flener |
Global Constraints | L07.pdf![]() |
Pierre Flener | |
Modelling | L08.pdf![]() |
Ref 3![]() |
Pierre Flener |
Set Variables | L09.pdf![]() |
Chapter 5 of Ref 0![]() |
Pierre Flener |
distinct Propagation | L10.pdf![]() |
Ref 4![]() ![]() |
Pierre Flener |
CT for Solving Configuration Problems | ct_config.pdf![]() |
Tacton Systems AB![]() |
Tomas Axling |
Linear and Nonlinear Programming | optimization09.pdf![]() |
Optimisation course | Per Lötstedt |
Constraint-Based Scheduling, Constraint Logic Programming, Concurrent Constraint Programming, Constraint-Based Local Search, Linear Programming, Hybridisation; Q & A |
L11.pdf![]() |
Pierre Flener |
Many (but not all) of the slides are copyright Christian Schulte, Marco Kuhlmann
, or Guido Tack
.