@InProceedings{maher:LIPIcs.ICLP.2010.114,
  author =	{Maher, Michael J.},
  title =	{{Contractibility and Contractible Approximations of Soft Global Constraints}},
  booktitle =	{Technical Communications of the 26th International Conference on Logic Programming},
  pages =	{114--123},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-17-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2010},
  volume =	{7},
  editor =	{Hermenegildo, Manuel and Schaub, Torsten},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICLP.2010.114},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-25890},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICLP.2010.114},
  annote =	{Keywords: Constraint logic programming, global constraints, open constraints, soft constraints}
}