Papers -- Constraints and User Interfaces

• Alan Borning, "ThingLab -- A Constraint-Oriented Simulation Laboratory", Xerox PARC TR SSL-79-3, July 1979
• Bjorn Freeman-Benson, "Converting an Existing User Interface to Use Constraints", Proceedings of the 1993 ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, November 1993, pages 207-215.
• Michael Sannella and Alan Borning, "Multi-Garnet: Integrating Multi-Way Constraints with Garnet", UW tech report 92-07-01.
• Michael Sannella, "Analyzing and Debugging Hierarchies of Multi-Way Local Propagation Constraints", in Alan Borning (ed.), Proceedings of the 1994 Workshop on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 874, pages 63-77.
• Michael Sannella, "Constraint Satisfaction and Debugging for Interactive User Interfaces", PhD dissertation, August 1994. Revised version published as UW Tech Report 94-09-10.
• Michael Sannella, "SkyBlue: A Multi-Way Local Propagation Constraint Solver for User Interface Construction", in Proceedings of the 1994 ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, pages 137-146.
• Greg J. Badros, Jeffrey Nichols, and Alan Borning, "Scwm--An Intelligent Constraint-Enabled Window Manager," Proceedings of the AAAI 2000 Spring Symposium Series on Smart Graphics, Stanford, CA, March 2000. (pdf; ps.gz)
• Greg J. Badros, Jeffrey Nichols, and Alan Borning, "Scwm: An Extensible Constraint-Enabled Window Manager," Proceedings of the 2001 FreeNIX Conference, Boston, June 2001. (pdf; ps.gz)