Walter Hower was born into a farming family. After Kindergarten and primary as well as secondary school he attended the high school and enjoyed his favourite subject
. After his military period as air force NATO soldier he studied Computer Science (including the minor Economics) with the main focus on Artificial Intelligence at the University of Kaiserslautern, with a really heavy pillar on Mathematics (incl.
[Prof. Dr. Heinz Lüneburg]). Already at that time he thought about the need or an alternative to present this difficult material the inspiration for this book.
Prof. Dr. Hower received the Teaching Prize 2006 of the state Baden-Württemberg and germany-wide the 3
place Professor of the Year in Engineering / Computer Science in 2009.
Scientific activities include:
- An Approach to Constraints, Interner Bericht IITB/TR-86-7, Forschungsgruppe Expertensysteme, Fraunhofer-Institut fürInformations- und Datenverarbeitung, Karlsruhe, 1986/1987
- A Lattice-based Constraint Formalism, First Australian KnowledgeEngineering Congress, Workshop on AI & Creativity, Melbourne, Australia, March, 1989
- On Conflict Resolution in Inconsistent Constraint Networks, Diplomarbeit, Fachbereich Informatik, Universität Kaiserslautern, 1989, Forschungsbericht AIDA-90-02, Fachgebiet Intellektik, FachbereichInformatik, Technische Hochschule (Universität) Darmstadt, 1990
- The Relaxation of Unsolvable CSPs --- General Problem Formulationand Specific Illustration in the Scheduling Domain, IJCAI-89 Workshop onConstraint Processing, Workshop Proceedings (editor: Rina Dechter, Cognitive Systems Laboratory, UCLA, CA, U. S. A.), p. 154, 11th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Detroit, Michigan, U. S. A. , August 1989
- Proper Constraint Relaxation, in João P. Martins andErnesto M. Morgado, editors, Proceedings (volume 2), EPIA-89, 4th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Lisbon, Portugal, 1989
- Sensitive Relaxation of an Overspecified Constraint Network, Second International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Centro de Inteligencia Artificial, Instituto Tecnológico y deEstudios Superiores de Monterrey, Nuevo Léon, México, Proceedings, McGraw-Hill / Interamericana de México, 1989
- Parallel global constraint satisfaction, IJCAI-91 Workshop on Parallel Processing for Artificial Intelligence(PPAI-91), Informal Proceedings, pp. 80--85, 12th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Darling Harbour, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, August 1991
- Massively distributed constraint satisfaction, Innovative Applications of Massive Parallelism, AAAI-1993 Spring Symposium, Stanford University, Palo Alto, Working Notes, pp. 99-105, Technical Report SS-93-04, AAAI Press, The American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Menlo Park, California, U. S. A. , March 1993 (co-author)
- Notes on complexity issues within constraint satisfaction, IJCAI-93 Workshop on Knowledge-based Production Planning, Scheduling and Control, pp. 179 186, 13th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Chambéry, Savoie, France, August 1993 (co-author)
- Parallel distributed constraint satisfaction, IJCAI-93 Workshop on Parallel Processing for Artificial Intelligence(PPAI-93), 13th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Chambéry, Savoie, France, August 1993 (co-author)
- A distributed realization for constraint satisfaction, in H. Kitano et al. , editors, Volume 15 of Machine Intelligence andPattern Recognition series, Chapter 9, pp. 107 116, Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1994 (co-author)
- Constraint Processing Part I/II, Department of Mathematics andComputing Science, The University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji, March 1994
- On an improvement of a global algorithm for the NP-completeconstraint satisfaction problem, International Computer ScienceInstitute, Berkeley, California, USA, June 1996
- Research in Constraint-Based Layout, Visualization, CAD, and RelatedTopics: A Bibliographical Survey, DFKI Research Report RR-95-12, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz, December 1995 +A bibliographical survey of constraint-based approaches to CAD, graphics, layout, visualization, and related topics, Knowledge-BasedSystems 9(7):449 464, November 1996, Elsevier Science (co-author)
- Reviewer of a project application for the EPSRC, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, UK, 1996
- Fine-grained conflict resolution in constraint satisfaction problems, Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, 10(1):37 47, Taylor & Francis, January-March 1998, https://doi. org/10. 1080/095281398146897, November 2010
- Global constraint satisfaction revisited, Technical Report TR-97-02, Department of Computer Science, University College Cork, National University of Ireland, 1997 +Revisiting global constraint satisfaction, Information ProcessingLetters 66(1):41-48, Elsevier Science, April 1998
- Computational Complexity in Constraint-based Combinatorial Auctions, INFORMATIK 2008, 38. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik, München, September 2008 (co-author)
- Boolean Algebra and Probability Theory, EU Erasmus guest professor, Angers, France, November 2008
His research interests are combinatorial optimization as well as cooperative and non-cooperative game theory.
A lively insight into presentations of the author (on the identical cardinality of
atural even numbers as well as on the funny Monty Hall problem) could be possible although in German via https://www. youtube. com/watch? v=zeCCMOHVS3w.
