When solving a problem using constraintprogramming, constraint modelling is widely acknowledged as an important and difficult task. Even a constraint modelling expert may explore many models and spend considerable ti...
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We study the complexity of the quantified and valued extension of the constraint satisfaction problem (QVCSP) for certain classes of languages. this problem is also known as the weighted constraint satisfaction proble...
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ISBN:
(数字)9783319983349
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(纸本)9783319983349;9783319983332
We study the complexity of the quantified and valued extension of the constraint satisfaction problem (QVCSP) for certain classes of languages. this problem is also known as the weighted constraint satisfaction problem with min-max quantifiers [1]. the multimorphisms that preserve a language is the starting point of our analysis. We establish some situations where a QVCSP is solvable in polynomial time by formulating new algorithms or by extending the usage of collapsibility, a property well known for reducing the complexity of the quantified CSP (QCSP) from Pspace to NP. In contrast, we identify some classes of problems for which the VCSP is tractable but the QVCSP is Pspace-hard. As a main Corollary, we derive an analogue of Shaeffer's dichotomy between P and Pspace for QCSP on Boolean languages and Cohen et al. dichotomy between P and NP-complete for VCSP on Boolean valued languages: we prove that the QVCSP follows a dichotomy between P and Pspace-complete. Finally, we exhibit examples of NP-complete QVCSP for domains of size 3 and more, which suggest at best a trichotomy between P, NP-complete and Pspace-complete for the QVCSP.
Methods exploiting tree-decompositions seem to provide the best approach for solving constraint networks w.r.t. the theoretical time complexity. However, they have not shown a real practical interest yet. In this pape...
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Many real-life problems are constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs), which can be programmed as constraint models and then be solved using constraint solvers. constraint solvers are equipped with a search algorithm, s...
ISBN:
(纸本)3540428631
Many real-life problems are constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs), which can be programmed as constraint models and then be solved using constraint solvers. constraint solvers are equipped with a search algorithm, such as forward checking, and labelling heuristics, one of which is the default. To enhance the performance of constraint models, a lot of research has been made in recent years to develop new labelling heuristics, which concern the choice of the next variable to branch on during the search and the choice of the value to be assigned to that variable. these heuristics significantly reduce the search space.
Alcatel-Lucent is a major player in the field of telecommunications. One of the products it offers to network operators is wireless infrastructure such as base stations. Such equipment is delivered in cabinets. these ...
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(纸本)9783540749691
Alcatel-Lucent is a major player in the field of telecommunications. One of the products it offers to network operators is wireless infrastructure such as base stations. Such equipment is delivered in cabinets. these cabinets are packed with various pieces of electronics: filters, amplifiers, circuit packs, etc. the exact configuration of a cabinet is dependent upon the circumstances it is being placed in, and some 20 product groups can be distinguished. However, the variation in cabinets is large, even within one product group. For this reason, they are built to order. In order to improve cost, yield and delivery performance, lean manufacturing concepts were applied to change the layout of the factory to one based on cells. these cells focus on improving manufacturing through standardised work, limited changeovers between product groups and better utilisation of test equipment. A key component in the implementation of these improvements is a system which schedules the cells to satisfy customer request dates in an efficient sequence. this paper describes the transformation and the tool that was built to support the new method of operations. the implementation has achieved significant improvements in manufacturing interval, work in process inventory, first test yield, headcount, quality (i.e. fewer defects are found during the testing stage) and delivery performance. Although these benefits are mainly achieved because of the change to a cell layout, the scheduling tool is crucial in realising the full potential of it.
Random instances are widely used as benchmarks in evaluating algorithms for finite-domain constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs).We present an analysis that shows why deciding satisfiability of instances from some di...
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We study the complexity of constraint satisfaction problems involving global constraints, i.e., special-purpose constraints provided by a solver and represented implicitly by a parametrised algorithm. Such constraints...
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Finding good problem decompositions is crucial for solving large-scale key/lock configuration problems. We present a novel approach to problem decomposition where the detection of a subproblem hierarchy is formulated ...
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this volume contains the papers presented at cp2009: the 15thinternationalconference on principles and practice of constraintprogramming. It was held from September 20–24, 2009 at the Rectory of the New Universit...
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ISBN:
(数字)9783642042447
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(纸本)9783642042430
this volume contains the papers presented at cp2009: the 15thinternationalconference on principles and practice of constraintprogramming. It was held from September 20–24, 2009 at the Rectory of the New University of Lisbon, Portugal. Everyone involved withthe conferencethanks our sponsors for their support. there were 128 submissions to the research track, of which 53 were accepted for a rate of 41.4%. Each submission was reviewed by three reviewers, with a small number of additional reviews obtained in exceptional cases. Each review waseitherbyaProgrammeCommitteemember,orbyacolleagueinvitedtohelp by a committee member thanks to their particular expertise. Papers submitted as long papers were accepted at full length or not at all. It is important to note that papers submitted as short papers were held to the same high standards of qualityas long papers. there is thus no distinction in these proceedings between long and short papers, except of course the number of pages they occupy. As it happens, the acceptancerates of short and long papers wereverysimilar indeed. therewere13submissionstotheapplicationtrack,ofwhich8wereaccepted, fora rateof61.5%.Papersunderwentthe samereviewprocessasregularpapers, and there was not a separate committee for reviewing application track papers. However, papers in the application track were not required to be original or novel research, but to be original and novel as an application of constraints.
the main advantage of constraintprogramming (cp) approaches for sequential pattern mining (SPM) is their modularity, which includes the ability to add new constraints (regular expressions, length restrictions, etc.)....
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