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CP
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Counting-Based Look-Ahead Schemes for Constraint Satisfaction
Abstract. The paper presents a new look-ahead scheme for backtracking search for solving constraint satisfaction problems. This look-ahead scheme computes a heuristic for value ord...
Kalev Kask, Rina Dechter, Vibhav Gogate
CP
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
How Much Backtracking Does It Take to Color Random Graphs? Rigorous Results on Heavy Tails
Many backtracking algorithms exhibit heavy-tailed distributions, in which their running time is often much longer than their median. We analyze the behavior of two natural variant...
Haixia Jia, Cristopher Moore
CP
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A Hybrid Method for Planning and Scheduling
We combine mixed integer linear programming (MILP) and constraint programming (CP) to solve planning and scheduling problems. Tasks are allocated to facilities using MILP and sche...
John N. Hooker
CP
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Constraint-Based Combinators for Local Search
Abstract. One of the most appealing features of constraint programming is its rich constraint language for expressing combinatorial optimization problems. This paper demonstrates t...
Pascal Van Hentenryck, Laurent Michel, Liyuan Liu
CP
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A Domain Consistency Algorithm for the Stretch Constraint
The stretch constraint occurs in many rostering problems that arise in the industrial and public service sectors. In this paper we present an efficient algorithm for domain consist...
Lars Hellsten, Gilles Pesant, Peter van Beek
CP
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Streamlined Constraint Reasoning
Abstract. We introduce a new approach for focusing constraint reasoning using so-called streamlining constraints. Such constraints partition the solution space to drive the search ...
Carla P. Gomes, Meinolf Sellmann
CP
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Statistical Regimes Across Constrainedness Regions
Abstract. Much progress has been made in terms of boosting the effectiveness of backtrack style search methods. In addition, during the last decade, a much better understanding of ...
Carla P. Gomes, Cèsar Fernández, Bar...
CP
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Financial Portfolio Optimisation
Pierre Flener, Justin Pearson, Luis G. Reyna
CP
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Heuristic Selection for Stochastic Search Optimization: Modeling Solution Quality by Extreme Value Theory
The success of stochastic algorithms is often due to their ability to effectively amplify the performance of search heuristics. This is certainly the case with stochastic sampling ...
Vincent A. Cicirello, Stephen F. Smith