Towards better heuristics for solving bounded model checking problemsSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 28 - Trang 45-66 - 2022
Anissa Kheireddine, Etienne Renault, Souheib Baarir
This paper presents a new way to improve the performance of the SAT-based
bounded model checking problem on sequential and parallel procedures by
exploiting relevant information identified through the characteristics of the
original problem. This led us to design a new way of building interesting
heuristics based on the structure of the underlying problem. The proposed
methodology is generic and c... hiện toàn bộ
Constraint models for graceful graphsSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 15 - Trang 64-92 - 2009
Barbara M. Smith, Jean-François Puget
We present three constraint models of the problem of finding a graceful
labelling of a graph, or proving that the graph is not graceful. An experimental
comparison of the models applied to different classes of graph is given. The
first model seems a natural way to represent the problem, but explores a much
larger search tree than the other models. The second model does much less
search, by making ... hiện toàn bộ
Explaining the cumulative propagatorSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 16 - Trang 250-282 - 2010
Andreas Schutt, Thibaut Feydy, Peter J. Stuckey, Mark G. Wallace
The global cumulative constraint was proposed for modelling cumulative resources
in scheduling problems for finite domain (FD) propagation. Since that time a
great deal of research has investigated new stronger and faster filtering
techniques for cumulative, but still most of these techniques only pay off in
limited cases or are not scalable. Recently, the “lazy clause generation” hybrid
solving a... hiện toàn bộ
On matrices, automata, and double counting in constraint programmingSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 18 - Trang 108-140 - 2012
Nicolas Beldiceanu, Mats Carlsson, Pierre Flener, Justin Pearson
Matrix models are ubiquitous for constraint problems. Many such problems have a
matrix of variables $\mathcal{M}$ , with the same constraint C defined by a
finite-state automaton $\mathcal{A}$ on each row of $\mathcal{M}$ and a global
cardinality constraint $\mathit{gcc}$ on each column of $\mathcal{M}$ . We give
two methods for deriving, by double counting, necessary conditions on the
cardinality... hiện toàn bộ
Partial symmetry breaking by local search in the groupSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 17 - Trang 148-171 - 2012
Steve D. Prestwich, Brahim Hnich, Helmut Simonis, Roberto Rossi, S. Armagan Tarim
The presence of symmetry in constraint satisfaction problems can cause a great
deal of wasted search effort, and several methods for breaking symmetries have
been reported. In this paper we describe a new method called Symmetry Breaking
by Nonstationary Optimisation, which interleaves local search in the symmetry
group with backtrack search on the constraint problem. It can be tuned to break
each ... hiện toàn bộ
Complexity of minimum-size arc-inconsistency explanationsSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 28 - Trang 427-449 - 2023
Christian Bessiere, Clément Carbonnel, Martin C. Cooper, Emmanuel Hebrard
Explaining the outcome of programs has become one of the main concerns in AI
research. In constraint programming, a user may want the system to explain why a
given variable assignment is not feasible or how it came to the conclusion that
the problem does not have any solution. One solution to the latter is to return
to the user a sequence of simple reasoning steps that lead to inconsistency. Arc
c... hiện toàn bộ
Improvements of constraint programming and hybrid methods for scheduling of tests on vehicle prototypesSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 17 - Trang 172-203 - 2012
Kamol Limtanyakul, Uwe Schwiegelshohn
In the automotive industry, a manufacturer must perform several hundreds of
tests on prototypes of a vehicle before starting its mass production. Tests must
be allocated to suitable prototypes and ordered to satisfy temporal constraints
and various kinds of test dependencies. The manufacturer aims to minimize the
number of prototypes required. We present improvements of constraint programming
(CP)... hiện toàn bộ
Promoting robust black-box solvers through competitionsSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 15 - Trang 317-326 - 2010
Christophe Lecoutre, Olivier Roussel, M. R. C. van Dongen
This paper presents the experiences of the organizers of the four constraint
solver competitions which were held in conjunction with CP in the previous
years. The paper mainly focuses on the competitions which were held in 2008
and 2009, outlines the reasons for organizing the competitions, describes how
the solvers were evaluated, and presents lessons, observations, and general
trends.