This paper studies the problems involved in solving, rating and generating Sudoku puzzles with genetic algorithms (GA). Sudoku is a number puzzle that has recently become a worldwi...
It is crucial to maximize marketing efficiency and customer satisfaction in personalized marketing. In this paper, we raise the multiple recommendation problem which occurs when pe...
Abstract. While the efficiency and scalability of modern SAT technology offers an intriguing alternative approach to constraint solving via translation to SAT, previous work has mo...
As many real-world problems involve user preferences, costs, or probabilities, constraint satisfaction has been extended to optimization by generalizing hard constraints to soft co...
This paper describes the combination of a well-known tsp heuristic, genius, with a constraint programming model for routing problems. The result, genius-cp, is an e cient heuristic...
Gilles Pesant, Michel Gendreau, Jean-Marc Rousseau