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CP
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Solution Directed Backjumping for QCSP
In this paper we present new techniques for improving backtracking based Quantified Constraint Satisfaction Problem (QCSP) solvers. QCSP is a generalization of CSP in which variab...
Fahiem Bacchus, Kostas Stergiou
IJCAI
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Probabilistic Consistency Boosts MAC and SAC
Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSPs) are ubiquitous in Artificial Intelligence. The backtrack algorithms that maintain some local consistency during search have become the de ...
Deepak Mehta, Marc R. C. van Dongen
AIPS
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Tractable Optimal Competitive Scheduling
In this paper we describe the problem of Optimal Competitive Scheduling, which consists of activities that compete for a shared resource. The objective is to choose a subset of ac...
Jeremy Frank, James Crawford, Lina Khatib, Ronen I...
CPAIOR
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Models and Symmetry Breaking for 'Peaceable Armies of Queens'
We discuss a di cult optimization problem on a chess-board, requiring equal numbers of black and white queens to be placed on the board so that the white queens cannot attack the b...
Barbara M. Smith, Karen E. Petrie, Ian P. Gent
COR
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
Portfolio selection using neural networks
In this paper we apply a heuristic method based on artificial neural networks (NN) in order to trace out the efficient frontier associated to the portfolio selection problem. We...
Alberto Fernández, Sergio Gómez