Modelling and Reformulating Constraint Satisfaction Problems

نویسندگان

  • Brahim Hnich
  • Patrick Prosser
  • Barbara Smith
  • Alan M. Frisch
  • Steven Prestwich
  • Helmut Simonis
چکیده

The solution density of a constraint problem can have a significant effect on local search performance. This paper describes a reformulation technique for artificially increasing solution density: relaxing the model in such a way that relaxed solutions are dominated by real solutions, and can be transformed into them. On an open stack minimization problem this technique can exponentially increase solution density, boosting local search performance.

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تاریخ انتشار 2005