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CP
2007
Springer
15 years 10 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
CP
2003
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Using the Breakout Algorithm to Identify Hard and Unsolvable Subproblems
Abstract. Local search algorithms have been very successful for solving constraint satisfaction problems (CSP). However, a major weakness has been that local search is unable to de...
Carlos Eisenberg, Boi Faltings
PRICAI
2004
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Solving Over-Constrained Temporal Reasoning Problems Using Local Search
Temporal reasoning is an important task in many areas of computer science including planning, scheduling, temporal databases and instruction optimisation for compilers. Given a kno...
Matthew Beaumont, John Thornton, Abdul Sattar, Mic...
CP
1999
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Optimal Distributed Arc-Consistency
This paper presents DisAC-9, the first optimal distributed algorithm performing the arc-consistency of a constraint network. Our method is optimal according to the number of messa...
Youssef Hamadi
AI
1998
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
A Heuristic Incremental Modeling Approach to Course Timetabling
Abstract. The general timetabling problem is an assignment of activities to xed time intervals, adhering to a prede ned set of resource availabilities. Timetabling problems are di ...
Don Banks, Peter van Beek, Amnon Meisels