relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/121/ title: A Survey of Constraint-based Programming Paradigms. creator: Buscemi, Maria Grazia creator: Montanari, Ugo subject: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science description: Constraints support a programming style featuring declarative description and effective solving of several classes of problems. Unlike basic primitives of other programming languages, constraints do not specify computing operations, but rather the properties of a solution to be found. In this paper, we give a survey of the main formalisms based on constraints: Constraint Satisfaction Problems, Constraint Logic Programming and Concurrent Constraint Programming. We outline recent extensions of these approaches and we discuss ongoing trends of research. publisher: Elsevier date: 2008 type: Article type: PeerReviewed identifier: Buscemi, Maria Grazia and Montanari, Ugo A Survey of Constraint-based Programming Paradigms. Computer Science Review, 2 (3). pp. 137-141. ISSN 1574-0137 (2008) relation: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B8JDG-4TPWW4R-1/2/b18c01b6493865aa7c4a84182981bef0 relation: 10.1016/j.cosrev.2008.10.001