Inaccurate scientific computation is useless at best and dangerous at worst. We address several major sources of inaccuracy. Roundoff error is well known and there is a great deal of work on minimizing it [Act96,Tay97...
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(纸本)3540666265
Inaccurate scientific computation is useless at best and dangerous at worst. We address several major sources of inaccuracy. Roundoff error is well known and there is a great deal of work on minimizing it [Act96,Tay97]. By using interval constraints, we dont eliminate roundoff error, but we make it explicit, so each answer comes with a clear indication of its accuracy. Another source of error arises from misapplying an algorithm (e.g. starting the Newton method with a poor initial choice, or using a method in a case where it does not perform well). We propose a method for reducing the chance of numerical errors in scientific programming by casting the problem as the design of an appropriate constraint solving algorithm and then separating the algorithm design process into two steps.
We present a novel approach to the Traveling Purchaser Problem (TPP), based on constraintprogramming and Lagrangean relaxation. the TPP is a generalization of the Traveling Salesman Problem involved in many real-worl...
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the constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) is a central generic problem in artificial intelligence. Considerable effort has been made in identifying properties which ensure tractability in such problems. In this paper ...
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the Social Golfer Problem has been extensively used in recent years by the constraint community as an example of highly symmetric problem. It is an excellent problem for benchmarking symmetry breaking mechanisms such ...
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A conditional constraint satisfaction problem (CCSP) extends a standard constraint satisfaction problem (CPS) with a conditionbased component that controls what variables participate in problem solutions. CCSPs adequa...
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A constraint satisfaction problem instance consists of a collection of variables that need to have values assigned to them. the assignments are limited by constraints that force the values taken by certain collections...
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(纸本)3540202021
A constraint satisfaction problem instance consists of a collection of variables that need to have values assigned to them. the assignments are limited by constraints that force the values taken by certain collections of variables (the constraint scopes) to satisfy specified properties (the constraint relations). As the general CSP problem is NP-hard there has been significant effort devoted to discovering tractable subproblems of the CSP. the structure of a CSP instance is defined to be the hypergraph formed by the constraint scopes. Restricting the possible structure of the CSP instances has been a successful way of identifying tractable subproblems. the language of a CSP instance is defined to be the set of constraint relations of the instance. Restricting the language allowed for CSP instances has also yielded many interesting tractable subproblems. Almost all known tractable subproblems are either structural or relational. In this paper we construct tractable subproblems of the general CSP that are neither defined by structural nor relational properties. these new tractable classes are related to tractable languages in much the same way that general decompositions (cutset, tree-clustering, etc.) are related to acyclic decompositions. It may well be that our results will begin to make language based tractability of more practical interest. We show that our theory allows us to properly extend the binary maxclosed language based tractable class, which is maximal as a tractable binary constraint language. Our theory also explains the tractability of the constraint representation of the Stable Marriage Problem which has not been amenable to existing explanations of tractability. In fact we provide a uniform explanation for the tractability of the class of maxclosed CSPs and the SMP. there has been much work done on so called renamable HORN theories which are a tractable subproblem of SAT. It has been shown that renamable HORN theories are tractably identifiable and
We propose some global constraints for lexicographic orderings on vectors of variables. these constraints are very useful for breaking a certain kind of symmetry arising in matrices of decision *** show that decomposi...
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We identify an important class of symmetries in constraintprogramming, arising from matrices of decision variables where rows and columns can be swapped. Whilst lexicographically ordering the rows(columns) breaks all...
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Researchers recently extended Distributed constraint Optimization Problems (DCOPs) to Communication-Aware DCOPs so that they are applicable in scenarios in which messages can be arbitrarily delayed. Distributed asynch...
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Finding high-quality bounds is key to devising efficient exact solution approaches for Discrete Optimization (DO) problems. To this end, Decision Diagrams (DDs) provide strong and generic bounding mechanisms. this pap...
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