Title
Refining Constraint Weighting
Abstract
Backtracking search is a complete approach that is traditionally used to solve instances modeled as constraint satisfaction problems. The space explored during search depends dramatically on the order that variables are instantiated. Considering that a perfect variable ordering might result to a backtrack-free search (i.e., finding backdoors, cycle cutsets), finding heuristics for variable ordering has always attracted research interest. For fifteen years, constraint weighting has been shown to be a successful approach for guiding backtrack search. In this paper, we show how the popular generic variable ordering heuristic dom/wdeg can be made more robust by taking finer information at each conflict: the "current" arity of the failing constraint as well as the size of the current domains of the variables involved in that constraint. Our experimental results show the practical interest of this refined variant of constraint weighting.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/ICTAI.2019.00019
2019 IEEE 31st International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
search heuristics,constraint weighting,constraint satisfaction
Conference
1082-3409
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-7281-3799-5
1
0.36
References 
Authors
9
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hugues Wattez111.37
Christophe Lecoutre270945.10
Anastasia Paparrizou3389.15
Sébastien Tabary4666.58