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ECCC
2010
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15 years 6 months ago
Tight Bounds on the Approximability of Almost-satisfiable Horn SAT and Exact Hitting Set}
We study the approximability of two natural Boolean constraint satisfaction problems: Horn satisfiability and exact hitting set. Under the Unique Games conjecture, we prove the fo...
Venkatesan Guruswami, Yuan Zhou
EDBTW
2006
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Unsatisfiability Reasoning in ORM Conceptual Schemes
ORM (Object-Role Modeling) is a rich and well-known conceptual modeling method. As ORM has a formal semantics, reasoning tasks such as satisfiability checking of an ORM schema natu...
Mustafa Jarrar, Stijn Heymans
CP
2003
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
A Synthesis of Constraint Satisfaction and Constraint Solving
Abstract. This paper offers a critique of the framework of Constraint Satisfaction Problems. While this framework has been successful in studying search techniques, and has inspire...
Michael J. Maher
COLCOM
2005
IEEE
15 years 12 months ago
Maintaining multi-way dataflow constraints in collaborative systems
Multi-way dataflow constraints are very useful in the development of collaborative applications, such as collaborative CAD and CASE systems, but satisfying multi-way dataflow cons...
Kai Lin, David Chen, R. Geoff Dromey, Chengzheng S...
AAAI
2007
15 years 8 months ago
Solving a Stochastic Queueing Design and Control Problem with Constraint Programming
A facility with front room and back room operations has the option of hiring specialized or, more expensive, cross-trained workers. Assuming stochastic customer arrival and servic...
Daria Terekhov, J. Christopher Beck, Kenneth N. Br...