Backbone variables have the same assignment in all solutions to a given constraint satisfaction problem; more generally, bias represents the proportion of solutions that assign a v...
Eric I. Hsu, Christian J. Muise, J. Christopher Be...
Column generation is a state-of-the-art method for optimally solving di cult large-scale optimization problems such as airline crew assignment. We show how to apply column generati...
Ulrich Junker, Stefan E. Karisch, Niklas Kohl, Bo ...
We deal with the search process of the GraphPlan algorithm in this paper. We concentrate on a problem of finding supports for a sub-goal which arises during the search. We model t...
The techniques for making decisions, i.e., branching, play a central role in complete methods for solving structured CSP instances. In practice, there are cases when SAT solvers be...
In this paper we investigate the use of preprocessing when solving Quantified Boolean Formulas (QBF). Many different problems can be efficiently encoded as QBF instances, and there...