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ICTAI
2003
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
Eliminating Redundancies in SAT Search Trees
Conflict analysis is a powerful paradigm of backtrack search algorithms, in particular for solving satisfiability problems arising from practical applications. Accordingly, most...
Richard Ostrowski, Bertrand Mazure, Lakhdar Sais, ...
AI
2006
Springer
14 years 9 months ago
Cut-and-solve: An iterative search strategy for combinatorial optimization problems
Branch-and-bound and branch-and-cut use search trees to identify optimal solutions to combinatorial optimization problems. In this paper, we introduce an iterative search strategy...
Sharlee Climer, Weixiong Zhang
JAIR
2011
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14 years 4 months ago
Second-Order Consistencies
In this paper, we propose a comprehensive study of second-order consistencies (i.e., consistencies identifying inconsistent pairs of values) for constraint satisfaction. We build ...
Christophe Lecoutre, Stéphane Cardon, Julie...
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EVOW
2011
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Local Search for Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Optimization: A Methodology and an Application
Abstract. A methodology is presented for tackling mixed-integer nonlinear optimization problems by local search, in particular large-scale real-life problems. This methodology is i...
Frédéric Gardi, Karim Nouioua
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HEURISTICS
2010
14 years 6 months ago
A shift sequence based approach for nurse scheduling and a new benchmark dataset
This paper investigates an adaptive constructive method for solving nurse rostering problems. The constraints considered in the problems are categorised into three classes: those t...
Peter Brucker, Edmund K. Burke, Timothy Curtois, R...