We present a method for propagating linear constraints. Our technique exploits the fact that the interior point method converges on a central point of the polytope. A variable assi...
Abstract. We propose two algorithms achieving generalized arc consistency for the soft global cardinality constraint with variable-based violation and with value-based violation. T...
We define a translation from Weighted CSP to signed Max-SAT, and a complete resolution-style calculus for solving signed Max-SAT. Based on these results, we then describe an orig...
In case a CSP is over-constrained, it is natural to allow some constraints, called soft constraints, to be violated. We propose a generic method to soften global constraints that c...
Willem Jan van Hoeve, Gilles Pesant, Louis-Martin ...
We show that global constraints on finite domains like alldifferent can be reformulated into answer set programs on which we achieve arc, bound or range consistency. These reform...