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A Local Search System for Solving Constraint Problems of Declarative Graph-Based Global Constraints
RISE - Research Institutes of Sweden, ICT, SICS.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1597-6738
Number of Authors: 52005 (English)In: Applications of Declarative Programming and Knowledge Management: 15th International Conference on Applications of Declarative Programming and Knowledge Management, INAP 2004, and 18th Workshop on Logic Programming: Revised Selected Papers, Springer , 2005, 1, , p. 308p. 166-184Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
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In this paper we present a local search constraint solver in which constraints are expressed using cost functions on graph structures of filter constraints of equal type. A similar theoretical approach has previously been used to model a large number of complex global constraints, which motivates the use of such a model in practice. In a local search context, we view global constraints as complex cost functions, encapsulating the structure of the constraints using a graph of variables, values and filter constraints. This representation gives us a declarative model, which can also be used to efficiently compute a cost as well as conflict levels of the variables in the constraints. We have implemented these ideas in a compositional C++ framework called Composer, which can be used to solve systems of graph-based constraints. We demonstrate the usability of this approach on several well-known global constraints, and show by experimental results on two problems that an approach using a graph basis for global constraint modeling is not only possible in practice, but also competitive with existing constraint-based local search systems.

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Springer , 2005, 1. , p. 308p. 166-184
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URN: urn:nbn:se:ri:diva-22899DOI: 10.1007/11415763_11ISBN: 3540255605 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ri-22899DiVA, id: diva2:1042464
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Applications of Declarative Programming and Knowledge Management: 15th International Conference on Applications of Declarative Programming and Knowledge Management, INAP 2004, and 18th Workshop on Logic Programming
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Published by Springer: Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Vol. 3392 ISBN: 978-3-540-25560-4

Available from: 2016-10-31 Created: 2016-10-31 Last updated: 2020-01-29Bibliographically approved

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