Set variables are ubiquitous in modeling (soft) constraint problems, but efforts on practical consistency algorithms for Weighted Constraint Satisfaction Problems (WCSPs) have onl...
Tailoring solver-independent constraint instances to target solvers is an important component of automated constraint modelling. We augment the tailoring process by a set of enhan...
Andrea Rendl, Ian Miguel, Ian P. Gent, Christopher...
In recent years, many works have been carried out to solve over-constrained problems, and more speci cally the Maximal Constraint Satisfaction Problem (Max-CSP), where the goal is ...
Identifying the extremal (minimal and maximal) sets from a collection of sets is an important subproblem in the areas of data-mining and satisfiability checking. For example, ext...
Bounding constraints are used to bound the tolerance of solutions under certain undesirable features. Standard solvers propagate them one by one. Often times, it is easy to satisfy...