7 3/8 X 9 1/4 in Preface; Introduction; Constraint Networks; Consistency-Enforcing Algori thms: Constraint Propagation; Directional Consistency; General Search St rategies; General Search Strategies: Look-Back; Local Search Algorithms; Advanced Consistency Methods; Tree-Decomposition Methods; Hybrid of Sea rch and Inference: Time-Space Trade-offs; Tractable Constraint Languages ; Temporal Constraint Networks; Constraint Optimization; Probabilistic N etworks; Constraint Logic Programming; Bibliography