Project Summary Constraints provide a flexible and uniform way to conceptually represent and manipulate diverse data capturing spatio-temporal behavior, complex modeling requirements, partial and incomplete information etc, and have been used in a wide variety of application domains.
Linear constraints are a natural candidate for the use in constraint databases for two reasons.
On the other hand, linear constraints are computationally manageable, even for very large amounts of data. However, the project has had two principle limitations. First, linear constraints, while expressive, are not fully satisfactory in a number of important application realms. Our next objective is lifting these two limitations. Project Impact Teaching 5 research seminars related to the topic of the project.