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Higher-Level Consistencies: Where, When, And How Much, Robert J. Woodward
Higher-Level Consistencies: Where, When, And How Much, Robert J. Woodward
Department of Computer Science and Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Determining whether or not a Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) has a solution is NP-complete. CSPs are solved by inference (i.e., enforcing consistency), conditioning (i.e., doing search), or, more commonly, by interleaving the two mechanisms. The most common consistency property enforced during search is Generalized Arc Consistency (GAC). In recent years, new algorithms that enforce consistency properties stronger than GAC have been proposed and shown to be necessary to solve difficult problem instances.
We frame the question of balancing the cost and the pruning effectiveness of consistency algorithms as the question of determining where, when, and how much of a higher-level …