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I present a new approach towards temporal reasoning that generalizes from the temporal relations commonly used in Allen's qualitative interval calculus and in quantitative temporal constraint satisfaction problems and includes interval relations with distances, temporal rules and other non-binary relations into the reasoning scheme. Moreover, I investigate how several factors underlying my gene...

Harmonization with four voices is a musical problem which is subject to hard constraints, which absolutely need to be fulfilled, as well as to soft constraints, which preferably hold, but are not mandatory. In this paper, we model this problem as a valued constraint satisfaction problem (VCSP): costs are assigned to possible solutions based on the constraints they violate. We design an algorith...

Decomposition methods are used to convert general constraint satisfaction problems into an equivalent tree-structured problem that can be solved more effectively. Recently, diagnosis algorithms for treestructured systems have been introduced, but the prerequisites of coupling these algorithms to the outcome of decomposition methods have not been analyzed in detail, thus limiting their diagnosti...

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In this paper, we study the relation among the parameters in their most general setting that define a large class of random CSP models d-k-CSP where d is the domain size and k is the length of the constraint scopes. The model d-k-CSP unifies several related models such as the model RB and the model k-CSP. We prove that the model d-k-CSP exhibits exact phase transitions if k ln d increases no sl...

The algebraic approach to Constraint Satisfaction Problem led to many developments in both CSP and universal algebra. The notion of absorption was successfully applied on both sides of the connection. This article introduces the concept of absorption, illustrates its use in a number of basic proofs and provides an overview of the most important results obtained by using it. 1998 ACM Subject Cla...

Article history: Received 17 September 2015 Received in revised form 1 February 2016 Accepted 3 February 2016 Available online 4 February 2016