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CPAIOR
2007
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
A Column Generation Based Destructive Lower Bound for Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problems
In this paper we present a destructive lower bound for a number of resource constrained project scheduling (RCPS) problems, which is based on column generation. We first look at t...
J. M. van den Akker, Guido Diepen, J. A. Hoogeveen
SARA
2007
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Computing and Using Lower and Upper Bounds for Action Elimination in MDP Planning
Abstract. We describe a way to improve the performance of MDP planners by modifying them to use lower and upper bounds to eliminate non-optimal actions during their search. First, ...
Ugur Kuter, Jiaqiao Hu
CPAIOR
2005
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Symmetry and Search in a Network Design Problem
Abstract. An optimization problem arising in the design of optical fibre networks is discussed. A network contains client nodes, each installed on one or more SONET rings. A const...
Barbara M. Smith
CPAIOR
2005
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Computing Explanations for the Unary Resource Constraint
Integration of explanations into a CSP solver is a technique addressing difficult question “why my problem has no solution”. Moreover, explanations together with advanced searc...
Petr Vilím
CPAIOR
2004
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Models and Symmetry Breaking for 'Peaceable Armies of Queens'
We discuss a di cult optimization problem on a chess-board, requiring equal numbers of black and white queens to be placed on the board so that the white queens cannot attack the b...
Barbara M. Smith, Karen E. Petrie, Ian P. Gent