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* Jeffrey Mark Siskind & David Allen McAllester: [http://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1011&context=ircs_reports Screamer: A Portable Efficient Implementation of Nondeterministic Common LISP] - 1993 - In PDF format.
* Jeffrey Mark Siskind & David Allen McAllester: [http://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1011&context=ircs_reports Screamer: A Portable Efficient Implementation of Nondeterministic Common LISP] - 1993 - In PDF format.
* Jeffrey Mark Siskind & David Allen McAllester: [https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/fb45/b1fa293fbc477ade27697ad3589196d8254f.pdf Nondeterministic Lisp as a Substrate for Constraint Logic Programming] - In PDF format
* Jeffrey Mark Siskind & David Allen McAllester: [https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/fb45/b1fa293fbc477ade27697ad3589196d8254f.pdf Nondeterministic Lisp as a Substrate for Constraint Logic Programming] - In PDF format
* Simon White: [https://web.archive.org/web/20041209220606/http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~swhite/screamer.html Screamer presentation] - 1997 - via Archive.org
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;Screamer+
* Simon White & D. Sleeman: [https://web.archive.org/web/20041204070707/http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~swhite/tr9805/tr9805.pdf Constraint Handling in Common LISP] - 1998 - In [[PDF]] format - via Archive.org
* Simon White & D. Sleeman: [https://web.archive.org/web/20041204070707/http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~swhite/tr9805/tr9805.pdf Constraint Handling in Common LISP] - 1998 - In [[PDF]] format - via Archive.org
* Simon White & D. Sleeman: [https://web.archive.org/web/20050405210954/http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/publications/TR/2002/tr0202.pdf Uses of a Grammar-Driven Case-Acquisition Tool] - 2002 - In [[PDF]] format - via Archive.org
* Simon White & D. Sleeman: [https://web.archive.org/web/20041212234435/http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~swhite/etai-final/ A Constraint-Based Approach to the Description and Detection of Fitness-for-Purpose] - 2000 - Multiformat download - via Archive.org
* Simon White: [https://web.archive.org/web/20041212195756/http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~swhite/thesis/thesis.pdf Enhancing Knowledge Acquisition with Constraint Technology] - 2000 - In PDF format - via Archive.org
;Arno & related
;Arno & related
* Torsten Anders: [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/i/icmc/bbp2372.2000.114/1 Arno: Constraints Programming in Common Music] - 2000 - Multiformat download available.
* Torsten Anders: [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/i/icmc/bbp2372.2000.114/1 Arno: Constraints Programming in Common Music] - 2000 - Multiformat download available.
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* Torsten Anders & Eduardo Reck Miranda: [https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Constraint-programming-systems-for-modeling-music-Anders-Miranda/7d0e783e5bb1c35a871a45e72fddaf7bf3db5d28 Constraint programming systems for modeling music theories and composition] - 2011 - Multiformat download
* Torsten Anders & Eduardo Reck Miranda: [https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Constraint-programming-systems-for-modeling-music-Anders-Miranda/7d0e783e5bb1c35a871a45e72fddaf7bf3db5d28 Constraint programming systems for modeling music theories and composition] - 2011 - Multiformat download
* Torsten Anders & Eduardo Reck Miranda: [https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/4e48/6d21688068f9eda5633e6d47c3835fe64437.pdf Higher-order Constraint applicators for Music Constraint Programming] - 2008 - Multiformat download
* Torsten Anders & Eduardo Reck Miranda: [https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/4e48/6d21688068f9eda5633e6d47c3835fe64437.pdf Higher-order Constraint applicators for Music Constraint Programming] - 2008 - Multiformat download
==Licence==
==Licence==
* Screamer is open source software originally released under a proprietary licence, but reissued under the [[single clause BSD licence]] in the 1990's.
* Screamer is open source software originally released under a proprietary licence, but reissued under the [[single clause BSD licence]] in the 1990's.

Revision as of 20:25, 28 March 2016

A platform independent LISP library that extends the language to support nondeterministic programming, but extensions include (an optional) constraint programming model, backtracking (both well known Prolog features), undoable side-effects, binding propagation, boolean constraint propagation, generalized forward checking, propagation of bounds, and unification. The system is complete enough to many users treating it as a separate variant of LISP under the name Nondeterministic Lisp.

The package languished from the point its original authors released their last version in 1993, but in 2010 a gent named Nikodemus Siivola started updating the package and got permission from the original authors to release the original package under a more liberal licence, development has remained slow, however.

Screamer+

Screamer+ is a small constraint solver add on to Screamer, although functional it has never really taken off as even though it is open source it has an explicit "do not redistribute without a written permission" clause alongside a non functioning e-mail address which has meant it is fast disappearing off the net.

Arno

Torsten Anders created a nondeterministic programming extension to Common Music called Arno (presumably named after Arno Babajanian) that is based on the Screamer package, since Arno does not seem to be downloadable and as Common Music no longer has a living OS/2 port this is all academic anyway. Anders later moved his attention from LISP the OZ multiparadigm programming language (now known as Mozart).

Versions

Screamer
  • Screamer 4.0.0 (2015-06-18)
  • Screamer 3.9 (1993-07-23)
Screamer+
  • Screamer+ 2000-02-17 (Last known version)

Links

Publications

Screamer
Screamer+
Arno & related

Licence

Authors

  • Jeffrey Mark Siskind (Original author)
  • David Allen McAllester (Original author)
  • Nikodemus Siivola (Current maintainer)
  • Simon White (Screamer+)
  • Torsten Anders (Arno)