Toward an automaton Constraint for Local Search

We explore the idea of using finite automata to implement new constraints for local search (this is already a successful technique in constraint-based global search). We show how it is possible to maintain incrementally the violations of a constraint and its decision variables from an automaton that...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jun He, Pierre Flener, Justin Pearson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Publishing Association 2009-10-01
Series:Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
Online Access:http://arxiv.org/pdf/0910.1266v1