We study the computational complexity of reasoning with global constraints. We show that reasoning with such constraints is intractable in general. We then demonstrate how the sam...
Deterministic annealing and relaxation labeling algorithms for classification and matching are presented and discussed. A new approach--self annealing--is introduced to bring dete...
Abstract The multiple knapsack problem (MKP) is a classical combinatorial optimization problem. A recent algorithm for some classes of the MKP is bin-completion, a bin-oriented, br...
We propose ALLDIFFPREC, a new global constraint that combines together an ALLDIFFERENT constraint with precedence constraints that strictly order given pairs of variables. We ident...
Christian Bessiere, Nina Narodytska, Claude-Guy Qu...
During the last 15 years, many mathematical models have been developed in order to solve process operation scheduling problems, using discrete or continuous time representations. ...
Sylvain Mouret, Ignacio E. Grossmann, Pierre Pesti...