Home Page of Xavier Lorca

		Research engineer (Net-WMS European Project) Ecole des Mines de Nantes 4 Rue Alfred Kastler FR-44307 Nantes Cedex 3 Email: xavier.lorca-at-emn.fr Phone: 02 51 85 83 48 Office: B-207

Research interests :

• Global constraints (see the Global Constraint Catalog),
• Graph partitioning constraints (subject of my thesis),
• Artificial intelligence.

Publications :

Article

• Nicolas Beldiceanu, Pierre Flener and Xavier Lorca
  Combining Tree Partitioning, Precedence, and Incomparability Constraints
  Constraints Journal. to appear.
  

• Nicolas Beldiceanu, Irit Katriel and Xavier Lorca
  Undirected Forest Constraints
  Annals of Operations Research, , special issue on "Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Operations Research". in progress.
  

International Conference

• Nicolas Beldiceanu and Xavier Lorca
  Necessary Condition for Path Partitioning Constraints
  CP-AI-OR 2007. LNCS 4510, pages 141-154. Springer, 2007.
  

• Nicolas Beldiceanu, Irit Katriel and Xavier Lorca
  Undirected Forest Constraints
  CP-AI-OR 2006. LNCS 3990, pages 29-43. Springer, 2006.
  

• Nicolas Beldiceanu, Pierre Flener and Xavier Lorca
  The Tree Constraint
  CP-AI-OR 2005. LNCS 3524, pages 64-78. Springer, 2005.
  

International Workshop

• Guillaume Richaud, Xavier Lorca, Narendra Jussien
  A portable and efficient implementation of global constraints: the tree constraint case
  CICLOPS 2007. pages 44-56.
  

National Conference

• Nicolas Beldiceanu and Xavier Lorca
  Condition nécessaire pour la contrainte de partitionnement de graphes par des chemins
  JFPC 2007. pages 297-305.
  

• Nicolas Beldiceanu, Pierre Flener and Xavier Lorca
  Partitionnement de graphes par des arbres sous contraintes de degré
  JFPC 2006. pages 35-43.
  

• Nicolas Beldiceanu, Irit Katriel and Xavier Lorca
  Contraintes de Partitionnement par des Arbres
  JFPC 2006. pages 43-53.
  

Technical Report

• Nicolas Beldiceanu, Pierre Flener and Xavier Lorca
  Combining Tree Partitioning, Precedence, Incomparability, and Degree Constraints, with an Application to Phylogenetic and Odered-Path Problems
  Technical report 2006-020. 2006
  

Work In Progress

• Contraintes de partitionnement de graphe
  A book based on my PhD thesis work.
  

• Toward Portability of Global Constraints
  An extended version of the CICLOPS' paper, with Guillaume Richaud and Narendra Jussien.
  

Teaching (In French):

• Algorithmique et Programmation
  
  • Algorithmique
  • Structure de données
• Combinatoire et Complexité
  
  • Programmation par Contraintes
  • Graphes et Algorithmes
• Informatique Fondamentale et Ingénierie
  
  • Fondements de l'Informatique
  • Systèmes et Réseaux
  • Bases de Données
  • Projets Informatiques