The paper presents a method for generating solutions of a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) uniformly at random. The main idea is to express the CSP as a factored probability d...
Abstract. For efficiency reasons, neighbourhoods in local search are often shrunk by only considering moves modifying variables that actually contribute to the overall penalty. The...
Many combinatorial problems, such as car sequencing and rostering, feature sequence constraints, restricting the number of occurrences of certain values in every subsequence of a g...
Willem Jan van Hoeve, Gilles Pesant, Louis-Martin ...
We describe the Zinc modelling language. Zinc provides set constraints, user defined types, constrained types, and polymorphic predicates and functions. The last allows Zinc to be ...
We reconsider the idea of structural symmetry breaking (SSB) for constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs). We show that the dynamic dominance checks used in symmetry breaking by dom...
Pierre Flener, Justin Pearson, Meinolf Sellmann, P...