TY - JOUR T1 - The Inductive Constraint Programming Loop JF - IEEE Intelligent Systems Y1 - 2017 A1 - Bessiere, Christian A1 - De Raedt, Luc A1 - Tias Guns A1 - Lars Kotthoff A1 - Mirco Nanni A1 - Siegfried Nijssen A1 - Barry O'Sullivan A1 - Paparrizou, Anastasia A1 - Dino Pedreschi A1 - Simonis, Helmut AB - Constraint programming is used for a variety of real-world optimization problems, such as planning, scheduling and resource allocation problems. At the same time, one continuously gathers vast amounts of data about these problems. Current constraint programming software does not exploit such data to update schedules, resources and plans. We propose a new framework, which we call the inductive constraint programming loop. In this approach data is gathered and analyzed systematically in order to dynamically revise and adapt constraints and optimization criteria. Inductive Constraint Programming aims at bridging the gap between the areas of data mining and machine learning on the one hand, and constraint programming on the other. ER - TY - ABST T1 - Data Mining and Constraint Programming - Foundations of a Cross-Disciplinary Approach. Y1 - 2016 A1 - Bessiere, Christian A1 - De Raedt, Luc A1 - Lars Kotthoff A1 - Siegfried Nijssen A1 - Barry O'Sullivan A1 - Dino Pedreschi AB - A successful integration of constraint programming and data mining has the potential to lead to a new ICT paradigm with far reaching implications. It could change the face of data mining and machine learning, as well as constraint programming technology. It would not only allow one to use data mining techniques in constraint programming to identify and update constraints and optimization criteria, but also to employ constraints and criteria in data mining and machine learning in order to discover models compatible with prior knowledge. This book reports on some key results obtained on this integrated and cross- disciplinary approach within the European FP7 FET Open project no. 284715 on “Inductive Constraint Programming” and a number of associated workshops and Dagstuhl seminars. The book is structured in five parts: background; learning to model; learning to solve; constraint programming for data mining; and showcases. ER -