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4C is devoted to the study of constraint programming and constraint-based
reasoning; its mission is to further the scientific aspects of the field through basic research and to
promote the use of this technology in real-world applications. To meet the goal of applying constraint
technology effectively, 4C is expanding its range of expertise to encompass the field of Decision Support Systems
(DSS). The present ToK project, Constraint Reasoning Extended to Enhance Decision Support (CREEDS) is
intended to support this transformation of the Centre.
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The ultimate goal of the CREEDS project is to enable 4C to become a major
European centre and resource for decision support systems research. It will
retain its current focus on solving hard combinatorial problems with
constraint programming, but it will adjust the scope of its endeavours to
address issues specifically related to DSS.
We believe that constraint programming has considerable promise for tackling
these decision support problems, thus advancing the field of DSS, and that
it even has the potential to support new breakthroughs in this area.
However, to realize this potential we must interact with relevant existing
disciplines.
Researchers will be recruited for this project from fields
outside constraint programming that represent major facets of
decision support systems. These include areas such as
dynamic systems analysis, psychology of decision making,
intelligent user interfaces, and group decision making. These
researchers will instruct 4C staff in their respective fields of
expertise and carry out original research on related topics in
decision support. In addition, two major programming projects will
serve as platforms for introducing and evaluating new ideas in
these areas, as well as supporting specific lines of research
such as the psychology of decision making in the context of decision
support systems. Each platform is targeted for a specific type of
end user (e.g. a customer or technical manager), to facilitate the
transfer of basic research to specific applications.
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