CPAIOR
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2005
Springer
Producing work schedules for airline crew normally results in individually different schedules. Some airlines do however want to give the same schedule to groups of people. The con...
CPAIOR
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2005
Springer
Integration of explanations into a CSP solver is a technique addressing difficult question “why my problem has no solution”. Moreover, explanations together with advanced searc...
CPAIOR
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2005
Springer
A cardinality constraint imposes that each value of a set V must be taken a certain number of times by a set of variables X, whereas an among constraint imposes that a certain numb...
CPAIOR
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2005
Springer
The effects of combining search and modelling techniques can be complex and unpredictable, so guidelines are very important for the design and development of effective and robust s...
CPAIOR
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2005
Springer
Abstract. We present an algorithmic framework for integrating solution methods that is based on search, inference, and relaxation and their interactions. We show that the following...
CPAIOR
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2005
Springer
Hybrid algorithms combining local and systematic search often use nondeterminism in fundamentally different ways. They may differ in the strategy to explore the search tree and/o...
CPAIOR
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2005
Springer
Abstract. Recently, new cost-based filtering algorithms for shorter-path constraints have been developed. However, so far only the theoretical properties of shorter-path constrain...
CPAIOR
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2005
Springer
Creating good integer programming formulations had, as a basic axiom, the rule “Find formulations with tighter linear relaxations”. This rule, while useful when using unsophist...
CPAIOR
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2005
Springer
We describe the problem of scheduling astronomy observations for the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, an airborne telescope. The problem requires maximizing the nu...
CPAIOR
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2005
Springer
We propose a natural generalization of arc-consistency, which we call multiconsistency: A value v in the domain of a variable x is kmulticonsistent with respect to a constraint C i...