Enhancements of Branch and Bound Methods for the Maximal Constraint Satisfaction Problem

Abstract

This paper will consider only the maximal constraint satisfaction problem (MAX-CSP), in which an optimal solution is one with a maximal number of satisfied constraints. There is reason to think that the results can be extended in a straightforward way to problems with weighted constraints (see [ SH81 ] ). Complete algorithms have been developed for MAX-CSPs that are based on branch and bound methods, using depth-first search ( [ FW92 ] ; see also [ SH81 ] ). Enhancements have also been developed that use information obtained from local consistency tests carried out before search. This information takes the form of inconsistency counts , i.e., tallies for each value

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Text

Wallace. "Enhancements of Branch and Bound Methods for the Maximal Constraint Satisfaction Problem." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1996.

Markdown

[Wallace. "Enhancements of Branch and Bound Methods for the Maximal Constraint Satisfaction Problem." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1996.](https://mlanthology.org/aaai/1996/wallace1996aaai-enhancements/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{wallace1996aaai-enhancements,
  title     = {{Enhancements of Branch and Bound Methods for the Maximal Constraint Satisfaction Problem}},
  author    = {Wallace, Richard J.},
  booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year      = {1996},
  pages     = {188-195},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/aaai/1996/wallace1996aaai-enhancements/}
}