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CP
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Cost-Based Filtering for Shorter Path Constraints
Abstract. Many real world problems, e.g. personnel scheduling and transportation planning, can be modeled naturally as Constrained Shortest Path Problems (CSPPs), i.e., as Shortest...
Meinolf Sellmann
CP
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Approximated Consistency for Knapsack Constraints
Knapsack constraints are a key modeling structure in discrete optimization and form the core of many real-life problem formulations. Only recently, a cost-based filtering algorit...
Meinolf Sellmann
CP
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Terminating Decision Algorithms Optimally
Incomplete decision algorithms can often solve larger problem instances than complete ones. The drawback is that one does not know whether the algorithm will finish soon, later, ...
Tuomas Sandholm
CP
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Automated Mechanism Design: A New Application Area for Search Algorithms
Mechanism design is the art of designing the rules of the game (aka. mechanism) so that a desirable outcome (according to a given objective) is reached despite the fact that each a...
Tuomas Sandholm
CP
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Using Constraint Programming to Solve the Maximum Clique Problem
This paper aims to show that Constraint Programming can be an efficient technique to solve a well-known combinatorial optimization problem: the search for a maximum clique in a gra...
Jean-Charles Régin
CP
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A SAT-Based Approach to Multiple Sequence Alignment
Multiple sequence alignment is a central problem in Bioinformatics. A known integer programming approach is to apply branch-and-cut to exponentially large graph-theoretic models. T...
Steven David Prestwich, Desmond G. Higgins, Orla O...
CP
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Comparison of Symmetry Breaking Methods
Symmetry in a Constraint Satisfaction Problem can cause wasted search, which can be avoided by adding constraints to the CSP to exclude symmetric assignments or by modifying the s...
Karen E. Petrie
CP
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Applying Interchangeability Techniques to the Distributed Breakout Algorithm
This paper presents two methods for improving the performance of the Distributed Breakout Algorithm using the notion of interchangeability. In particular, we use neighborhood part...
Adrian Petcu, Boi Faltings
CP
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Generating High Quality Schedules for a Spacecraft Memory Downlink Problem
This work introduces a combinatorial optimization problem called Mars Express Memory Dumping Problem (Mex-Mdp), which arises in the European Space Agency program Mars Express. It c...
Angelo Oddi, Nicola Policella, Amedeo Cesta, Gabri...