Splitting the Atom: A New Approach to Neighbourhood Interchangeability in Constraint Satisfaction Problems

Abstract

We investigate interchangeability of values in CSPs, based on an approach where a single value in the domain of a variable can be treated as a combination of "sub-values". An algorithm for removing overlapping sub-values is presented. The resulting CSPs take less time to find all solutions and yield a more compactly-representable, but equivalent, solution set. Experimental results show that, especially in loose problems with large numbers of solutions, dramatic savings in search cost are achieved. 1

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Text

Bowen and Likitvivatanavong. "Splitting the Atom: A New Approach to Neighbourhood Interchangeability in Constraint Satisfaction Problems." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2003.

Markdown

[Bowen and Likitvivatanavong. "Splitting the Atom: A New Approach to Neighbourhood Interchangeability in Constraint Satisfaction Problems." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2003.](https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/2003/bowen2003ijcai-splitting/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{bowen2003ijcai-splitting,
  title     = {{Splitting the Atom: A New Approach to Neighbourhood Interchangeability in Constraint Satisfaction Problems}},
  author    = {Bowen, James and Likitvivatanavong, Chavalit},
  booktitle = {International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year      = {2003},
  pages     = {1366-1367},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/2003/bowen2003ijcai-splitting/}
}