The Employee Timetabling Problem (ETP) is a general class of problems widely encountered in service organizations (such as call centers for instance). Given a set of activities, a ...
Sophie Demassey, Gilles Pesant, Louis-Martin Rouss...
We explore the problem of reconstructing an image from a bag of square, non-overlapping image patches, the jigsaw puzzle problem. Completing jigsaw puzzles is challenging and requ...
We present a hybrid solver (called GELATO) that exploits the potentiality of a Constraint Programming (CP) environment (Gecode) and of a Local Search (LS) framework (EasyLocal++ )....
Raffaele Cipriano, Luca Di Gaspero, Agostino Dovie...
A widely adopted approach to solving constraint satisfaction problems combines systematic tree search with constraint propagation for pruning the search space. Constraint propagati...
Chiu Wo Choi, Warwick Harvey, J. H. M. Lee, Peter ...
An intelligent problem solver must be able to decompose a complex problem into simpler parts. A decomposition algorithm would not only be bene cial for traditional subgoal-oriente...