Title
Solving Constraint Satisfaction Problems Containing Vectors Of Unknown Size
Abstract
Constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) are used to solve real-life problems with inherent structures that contain vectors for repeating sets of variables and constraints. Often, the structure of the problem is a part of the problem, since the number of elements in the vector is not known in advance. We propose a method to solve such problems, even when there is no maximal length provided. Our method is based on constructing a vector size CSP from the problem description, and solving it to get the number of elements in the vector. We then use the vector size to construct and solve a CSP that has a specific number of elements. Experimental results show that this method enables fast solving of problems that cannot be solved or even constructed by existing methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1007/978-3-319-66158-2_4
PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF CONSTRAINT PROGRAMMING (CP 2017)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Constraint satisfaction problems, Unbounded vector size
Mathematical optimization,Local consistency,Computer science,Constraint graph,Decomposition method (constraint satisfaction),Constraint satisfaction problem,Complexity of constraint satisfaction,Constraint satisfaction dual problem,Backtracking,Hybrid algorithm (constraint satisfaction)
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
10416
0302-9743
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
11
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Erez Bilgory110.37
Eyal Bin2566.74
Avi Ziv346572.49