1. Introduction to the Special Issue

   • Vijay Saraswat
   • Pascal Van Hentenryck

   Legacy Pages: 5 - 6

2. Constraint Programming: Strategic Directions

   • Pascal Van Hentenryck
   • Vijay Saraswat

   OriginalPaper Pages: 7 - 33

3. Constraint Databases: Promising Technology or Just Intellectual Exercise?

   • Alexander Brodsky

   OriginalPaper Pages: 35 - 44

4. The Virtuality of Constraints and the Constraints of Virtuality

   • Philippe Codognet

   OriginalPaper Pages: 45 - 49

5. Bucket Elimination: a Unifying Framework for Processing Hard and Soft Constraints

   • Rina Dechter

   OriginalPaper Pages: 51 - 55

6. In Pursuit of the Holy Grail

   • Eugene C. Freuder

   OriginalPaper Pages: 57 - 61

7. Some Challenges for Constraint Programming

   • Manuel Hermenegildo

   OriginalPaper Pages: 63 - 69

8. Constraint Programming 2000: A Position Paper

   • Joxan Jaffar
   • Roland H.C. Yap

   OriginalPaper Pages: 71 - 73

9. Towards a Constraint-Based Engineering Framework for Algorithm Design and Application

   • Simon Kasif

   OriginalPaper Pages: 75 - 82

10. Constraint-Based Design of Embedded Intelligent Systems

    • Alan K. Mackworth

    OriginalPaper Pages: 83 - 86

11. Constraint Solving and Programming: What Next?

    • Ugo Montanari
    • Francesca Rossi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 87 - 91

12. Constraints in Databases

    • Raghu Ramakrishnan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 93 - 94

13. Compositional Computing

    • Vijay Saraswat

    OriginalPaper Pages: 95 - 97

14. Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Search Problems

    • Pascal Van Hentenryck

    OriginalPaper Pages: 99 - 101