Comet (programming language)
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Comet is a commercial programming language designed by at-the-time Brown University professor Dr. Pascal Van Hentenryck and used to solve complex combinatorial optimization problems in areas such as resource allocation and scheduling. It offers a range of optimization algorithms: from mathematical programming to constraint programming, local search algorithms and "dynamic stochastic combinatorial optimization."[1]
Comet programs specify local search algorithms as two components:
- a high-level model describing the applications in terms of constraints, constraint combinators, and objective functions;
- a search procedure expressed in terms of the model at a high abstraction level.
This approach promotes reusability across applications.
Its API allows it to be used as a software library. Comet also features high-level abstractions for parallel and distributed computing, based on loop scheduling, interrupts, and work stealing.
References[edit]
- ^ Taylor, J., "First Look - Dynadec Comet", July 8, 2009
External links[edit]
- Comet homepage at Dynadec (defunct)
- Constraint-Based Local Search by Pascal Van Hentenryck and Laurent Michel. The MIT Press, 2005.