Distributing problem solving on the Web using constraint technology

Author

Arnal, Marc Torrens i ; Weigel, Rainer ; Faltings, Boi

Author_Institution

Artificial Intelligence Lab., Fed. Inst. of Technol., Lausanne, Switzerland

fYear

1998

fDate

10-12 Nov 1998

Firstpage

42

Lastpage

49

Abstract

WWW servers have to serve many clients simultaneously and thus cannot provide intelligent services. We present an approach where intelligent problem solving is distributed so that compute-expensive tasks are carried out on the client side. To this end, we have implemented a library of constraint satisfaction techniques, called the JAVA constraint library, which allows composing applets that solve CSPs. We present the library and show several examples of applications

Keywords

Internet; Java; client-server systems; constraint handling; knowledge based systems; problem solving; search engines; software libraries; CSPs; Internet; JAVA constraint library; WWW servers; Web; applets; clients; compute-expensive tasks; constraint satisfaction techniques; constraint technology; intelligent problem solving; intelligent services; problem solving; Artificial intelligence; Chip scale packaging; Databases; Delay; Java; Laboratories; Libraries; Problem-solving; Web server; World Wide Web;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Tools with Artificial Intelligence, 1998. Proceedings. Tenth IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Taipei

ISSN

1082-3409

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5214-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TAI.1998.744757

Filename

744757