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Pruning Rules for Constrained Optimisation for Conditional Preferences

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Pruning Rules for Constrained Optimisation for Conditional Preferences
A depth-first search algorithm can be used to find optimal solutions of a Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) with respect to a set of conditional preferences statements (e.g., a CP-net). This involves checking at each leaf node if the corresponding solution of the CSP is dominated by any of the optimal solutions found so far; if not, then we add this solution to the set of optimal solutions. This kind of algorithm can clearly be computationally expensive if the number of solutions is large. At a node N of the search tree, with associated assignment b to a subset of the variables B, it may happen that, for some previously found solution α, either (a) α dominates all extensions of b; or (b) α does not dominate any extension of b. The algorithm can be significantly improved if we can find sufficient conditions for (a) and (b) that can be efficiently checked. In case (a), we can backtrack since we need not continue the search below N; in case (b), α does not need to be considere...
Nic Wilson, Walid Trabelsi
Added 18 Dec 2011
Updated 18 Dec 2011
Type Journal
Year 2011
Where CP
Authors Nic Wilson, Walid Trabelsi
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