Re: looking for ideas for newpaper printing constraints

On 18 Nov 2005 08:32:56 -0800, "Capitan Mutanda"
<capitanmutanda@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Hello!
>
>Please forgive me for naive questions and terminology, but I'm quite
>new to constraints.
>
>What I want to do :-)
>
>Describe using some formal notation the layout of a newspaper, this
>basically means translating oral traditions (with some excel and
>similar support) into real rules. I'm looking into constraint
>programming because the printing process imposes constraints such as
>places where I can put color and places where only B&W pages can go.
>Also the information content imposes constraints depending on the
>edition (location specific content).
>
>I've started looking at Mozart-Oz, today I discovered Alice; these
>environments are quite far from my typical programming experience (C,
>C++, Java) and feel intimidated. Any other suggestions?

Actually, before you even start to be intimidated by programming
environments, try to formulate your problem as constraint
programming problem. Seems to be non trivial for me.

A.L.

.

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