A fast algorithm to establish arc-consistency in constraint networks

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  • Christian Bessière
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In [1], Bessière and Cordier said that the AC-6 arc-consistency algorithm is optimal in time on constraint networks where nothing is known about the constraint semantics. However, in constraint networks, it is always assumed that constraints are symmetric. None of the previous algorithms achieving arc-consistency (AC-3, AC-4, AC-6) use this property. We propose here an improved version of AC-6 (the best known algorithm for arc-consistency), which uses this property.

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تاریخ انتشار 1994