Denis Berthier

Basic User Manual for CSP-Rules-V2.1 Denis Berthier Second edition

This book is the User Manual for CSP-Rules-V2.1, a generic pattern-based (or rule-based) solver of finite binary Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSPs). The associated software, CSP-Rules-V2.1, is available on GitHub. It includes fully developed applications to logic puzzles such as Latin Squares, Sudoku, Futoshiki, Kakuro, Map Colouring, Numbrix, Hidato and Slithering. This second edition includes additions related to reducing the number of steps in a resolution path.