Abstract. Among backtracking based algorithms for constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs), algorithms employing constraint propagation, like forward checking (FC) and MAC, have had...
Abstract. This paper proposes to promote constraints to first-class status. In contrast to constraint propagation, which performs inference on values of variables, first-class co...
This paper presents a model and implementation techniques for speeding up constraint propagation. Two fundamental approaches to improving constraint propagation are explored: keepi...
Abstract. Constraint propagation is one of the techniques central to the success of constraint programming. Fast algorithms are used to prune the search space either before or duri...
Constraint Propagation can be speeded up significantly by choosing a good execution order for propagators. A propagator is an implicit representation of a constraint which is wide...
Lotos is the ISO formal specification language for describing and verifying concurrent and distributed systems. The simulation or execution of complex Lotos specifications is, h...
Constraint programming has been used in many applications where uncertainty arises to model safe reasoning. The goal of constraint propagation is to propagate intervals of uncerta...
Explanations are a technique for reasoning about constraint propagation, which have been applied in many learning, backjumping and user-interaction algorithms for constraint progra...
Abstract. Today's models for propagation-based constraint solvers require propagators as implementations of constraints to be at least contracting and monotonic. These models ...
We apply the dead-end elimination (DEE) strategy from protein design as a heuristic for the max-flow/min-cut formulation of the image segmentation problem. DEE combines aspects of...