| ETAPS 
        2003, April 12, 2003, Warshaw, PolandProgramme
 
 
           
            | 9.00 
              - 10.30 | Introduction 
              and basic terminology. History and application areas. Local search 
              techniques (hill-climbing, min-conflicts, random-walk). |   
            | 11.00 
              - 12.30 | Systematic 
              search techniques: chronological backtracking, backjumping, backmarking, 
              discrepancy search. |   
            | 14.00 
              - 16.00 | Consistency 
              techniques: node consistency, arc consistency, path consistency. 
              Generic consistency notions: k-consistency, (i,j)-consistency, singleton 
              consistency. |   
            | 16.30 
              - 18.00 | Integration 
              of consistency with search, value/variable ordering. Optimisation 
              and over-constrained problems. Final notes. |  |