Rectangle (square) packing problems involve packing all squares with sizes 1 × 1 to n × n into the minimum area enclosing rectangle (respectively, square). Rectangle packing is a...
Abstract. Call control features (e.g., call-divert, voice-mail) are primitive options to which users can subscribe off-line to personalise their service. The configuration of a fea...
David Lesaint, Deepak Mehta, Barry O'Sullivan, Lui...
ctural abstractions that were introduced in [17]. Compared with other symmetry-breaking techniques, the big advantage of dynamic symmetry breaking is that it can accommodate dynami...
Daniel S. Heller, Aurojit Panda, Meinolf Sellmann,...
We propose new filtering algorithms for the SEQUENCE constraint and some extensions of the SEQUENCE constraint based on network flows. We enforce domain consistency on the SEQUENCE...
Michael J. Maher, Nina Narodytska, Claude-Guy Quim...
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...
It is acknowledged that the symbolic form of the equations is crucial for interval-based solving techniques to efficiently handle systems of equations over the reals. However, only...
ABT is the reference algorithm for asynchronous distributed constraint satisfaction. When searching, ABT produces nogoods as justifications of deleted values. When one of such nogo...
We introduce the SoftAllEqual global constraint, which maximizes the number of equalities holding between pairs of assignments to a set of variables. We study the computational com...
Abstract. Table constraints play an important role within constraint programming. Recently, many schemes or algorithms have been proposed to propagate table constraints or/and to c...