HEURISTICS
2008
13 years 3 months ago
2008
Since their beginning in constraint programming, set solvers have been applied to a wide range of combinatorial search problems, such as bin-packing, set partitioning, circuit desi...
HEURISTICS
2006
13 years 4 months ago
2006
In case a CSP is over-constrained, it is natural to allow some constraints, called soft constraints, to be violated. We propose a generic method to soften global constraints that c...
HEURISTICS
2006
13 years 4 months ago
2006
This paper investigates the capabilities of the Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) meta-heuristic for solving the maximum clique problem, the goal of which is to find a largest set of ...
HEURISTICS
2006
13 years 4 months ago
2006
Multiobjective optimization deals with problems involving multiple measures of performance that should be optimized simultaneously. In this paper we extend bucket elimination (BE),...
HEURISTICS
2006
13 years 4 months ago
2006
HEURISTICS
2006
13 years 4 months ago
2006
Representing and reasoning with an agent's preferences is important in many applications of constraints formalisms. Such preferences are often only partially ordered. One clas...
HEURISTICS
2006
13 years 4 months ago
2006
HEURISTICS
2006
13 years 4 months ago
2006
Many real life optimization problems are defined in terms of both hard and soft constraints, and qualitative conditional preferences. However, there is as yet no single framework f...
HEURISTICS
2006
13 years 4 months ago
2006
In this paper we develop a heuristic algorithm, based on Scatter Search, for project scheduling problems under partially renewable resources. This new type of resource can be view...