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The concept of Expert Decision Support Systems is based on the integration of Decision Support Systems and Expert Systems, providing the decision maker with features from both types of systems (e.g. simulation, explanations, control of reasoning). Constraint logic programming languages, such as CLP(R) or CHIP, achieve this integration by merging logic programming, a paradigm of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, with constraint solving techniques similar to those used in Operations Research and Decision Support Systems. Their embedded constraint solver extends the expressive power of logic programming languages, most notably on the domain of numerical expressions. The paper illustrates how constraint logic programming may be used in EDSS development by presenting a small classroom scheduling problem developed with CLP(R), and compares this approach to more traditional Operations Research techniques.
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Barahona, P., Ribeiro, R. (1990). Building an Expert Decision Support System: The Integration of Artificial Intelligence and Operations Research Methods. In: Schader, M., Gaul, W. (eds) Knowledge, Data and Computer-Assisted Decisions. NATO ASI Series, vol 61. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84218-4_12
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