Software development

"la créativité naît des contraintes et meurt de liberté." L. de Vinci

• Since 2002, I coordinate the development of the Biochemical Abstract Machine, BIOCHAM for modeling, analyzing and synthesizing chemical reaction networks (see video).

  Laurence Calzone, François Fages, Sylvain Soliman. BIOCHAM: An Environment for Modeling Biological Systems and Formalizing Experimental Knowledge. Bioinformatics, 22(14):1805–1807, 2006. [ preprint ]

  
  
  

• Since 2023, motivated by teaching purposes, I develop modeling, a SWI-Prolog pack for constraint-based mathematical modelling in Prolog:

  François Fages. A Constraint-based Mathematical Modeling Library in Prolog with Answer Constraint Semantics. In 17th International Symposium on Functional and Logic Programming, FLOPS 2024, LNCS. Springer-Verlag, 2024. [ preprint ]

  
  
  

• In 2002, I developed a generic graphical user interface for constraint logic programming, CLPGUI, revised in 2006 and planned for upgrade in 2024 for teaching purposes.

  François Fages, Sylvain Soliman, Rémi Coolen. CLPGUI: a Generic Graphical User Interface for Constraint Logic Programming. Journal of Constraints, Special Issue on User-Interaction in Constraint Satisfaction, 9(4):241–262, 2004. [ preprint ]

  
  
  

I also supervised the development of:

• ClpZinc a Horn clause front-end for the MiniZInc modelling language for expressing search strategies by constraints, developed by Thierry Martinez
  
  
• MiniZinc-CMAES a stochastic optimization backend for the MiniZinc modelling language, developed by Thierry Martinez
  
  
• FO-CTL(ℝlin), a constraint solver for full First-Order Computation Tree Logic with linear arithmetic over the reals, implemented by Thierry Martinez in 2012.
  
  
• Rules2CP, a rule-based modelling language for constraint programming, implemented by Julien Martin from 2007 to 2009.
  
  
• CHRat, a modular version of Constraint Handling Rules with ask and tell, implemented by Thierry Martinez in 2008.
  
  
• TCLP, a type checker for Constraint Logic Programming, implemented by Emmanuel Coquery, from 2001 to 2006.

and in a former life at Thomson-CSF (now Thales)

• I developed from 1986 to 1992 a rule-based reactive programming language, which became Ilog Rules (now IBM Ilog).
  
  
• and from 1989 to 1996 a Prolog library for solving constraints over finite domains Meta(F) used for several applications at Thales

  Philippe Codognet, François Fages, Thierry Sola. A meta-level compiler for CLP(FD) and its combination with intelligent backtracking. In Constraint Logic Programming : Selected Research, pages 437–456. MIT Press, 1993. [ preprint ]

  and for teaching at X and ENS

  François Fages. Programmation Logique par Contraintes. In , Collection Cours de l'Ecole Polytechnique. Ed. Ellipses, Paris (192p), 1996. [ preprint ]