Title
Conflict Ordering Search for Scheduling Problems.
Abstract
We introduce a new generic scheme to guide backtrack search, called Conflict Ordering Search (COS), that reorders variables on the basis of conflicts that happen during search. Similarly to generalized Last Conflict (LC), our approach remembers the last variables on which search decisions failed. Importantly, the initial ordering behind COS is given by a specified variable ordering heuristic, but contrary to LC, once consumed, this first ordering is forgotten, which makes COS conflict-driven. Our preliminary experiments show that COS - although simple to implement and parameter-free - is competitive with specialized searches on scheduling problems. We also show that our approach fits well within a restart framework, and can be enhanced with a value ordering heuristic that selects in priority the last assigned values.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/978-3-319-23219-5_10
CP
Field
DocType
Volume
Mathematical optimization,Heuristic,Computer science,Scheduling (computing)
Conference
9255
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
7
0.55
References 
Authors
9
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Steven Gay1101.02
Renaud Hartert2564.15
Christophe Lecoutre370945.10
Pierre Schaus412724.63