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AAAI
2008
14 years 8 days ago
A New Incomplete Method for CSP Inconsistency Checking
Checking CSP consistency is shown, in theory, to be an NP-complete problem. There is two families of methods for CSP consistency checking. The first family holds the complete meth...
Belaid Benhamou, Mohamed Réda Saïdi
ECAI
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A Decomposition Technique for Max-CSP
The objective of the Maximal Constraint Satisfaction Problem (Max-CSP) is to find an instantiation which minimizes the number of constraint violations in a constraint network. In t...
Hachemi Bennaceur, Christophe Lecoutre, Olivier Ro...
AAAI
2010
13 years 11 months ago
Hydra: Automatically Configuring Algorithms for Portfolio-Based Selection
The AI community has achieved great success in designing high-performance algorithms for hard combinatorial problems, given both considerable domain knowledge and considerable eff...
Lin Xu, Holger Hoos, Kevin Leyton-Brown
AAAI
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Methods for Boosting Revenue in Combinatorial Auctions
We study the recognized open problem of designing revenuemaximizing combinatorial auctions. It is unsolved even for two bidders and two items for sale. Rather than pursuing the pu...
Anton Likhodedov, Tuomas Sandholm
AAAI
2006
13 years 11 months ago
When a Decision Tree Learner Has Plenty of Time
The majority of the existing algorithms for learning decision trees are greedy--a tree is induced top-down, making locally optimal decisions at each node. In most cases, however, ...
Saher Esmeir, Shaul Markovitch