If anyone wants to learn constraint programming, as I needed to do a few months ago, the two best books I found are this one, which is a general introduction:

If anyone wants to learn constraint programming, as I needed to do a few months ago, the two best books I found are this one, which is a general introduction: http://www.amazon.com/Constraint-Processing-Kaufmann-Artificial-Intelligence/dp/1558608907 http://www.amazon.com/Constraint-Processing-Kaufmann-Artific... ... and this one, which is a survey of the literature: http://www.amazon.com/Constraint-Programming-Foundations-Artificial-Intelligence/dp/0444527265 http://www.amazon.com/Constraint-Programming-Foundations-Art... None of the other books I looked at was even close to as useful as these. Maybe this will save somebody some trouble.