Do as I do, not as I say.

Interactive Constraint Satisfaction (ICS) is an approach to solving Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSP) interactively with the user [3]. This class of problems includes subjective, everyday problems such as finding a house, as well as complex scientific problems. A difficult issue in ICS is how to acquire constraints from the user, when the user may not be able to clearly and accurately articulate them. We present a Transparent Interactive Constraint Acquisition and Satisfaction approach to address this issue. It employs a combination of clustering and inductive generalization to unobtrusively acquire multiple and/or compound constraints from the user and apply them to a CSP. We describe the application of the approach to hardware/software partitioning and future research directions.