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The constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) is a computational problem that includes a range of important problems in computer science. We point out that fundamental concepts of the CSP, such as the solution set of an instance and…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-04 Soichiro Fujii , Yuni Iwamasa , Kei Kimura

The Job Shop Scheduling Problem (JSP) is a pivotal challenge in operations research and is essential for evaluating the effectiveness and performance of scheduling algorithms. Scheduling problems are a crucial domain in combinatorial…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Christian Perez , Carlos March , Miguel A. Salido

The Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) framework offers a simple and sound basis for representing and solving simple decision problems, without uncertainty. This paper is devoted to an extension of the CSP framework enabling us to deal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-02-21 Helene Fargier , Jerome Lang , Roger Martin-Clouaire , Thomas Schiex

In this work, we focus on the Partial Constraint Satisfaction Problem (PCSP) over control-flow graphs (CFGs) of programs. PCSP serves as a generalization of the well-known Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP). In the CSP framework, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Xuran Cai , Amir Goharshady

Many tractable algorithms for solving the Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) have been developed using the notion of the treewidth of some graph derived from the input CSP instance. In particular, the incidence graph of the CSP instance…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-05-19 M. Praveen

A constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) is a computational problem where the input consists of a finite set of variables and a finite set of constraints, and where the task is to decide whether there exists a satisfying assignment of values…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Manuel Bodirsky

Many AI synthesis problems such as planning or scheduling may be modelized as constraint satisfaction problems (CSP). A CSP is typically defined as the problem of finding any consistent labeling for a fixed set of variables satisfying all…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-03-25 Thomas Schiex

We study parameterized Constraint Satisfaction Problem for infinite constraint languages. The parameters that we study are weight of the satisfying assignment, number of constraints, maximum number of occurrences of a variable in the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Ruhollah Majdoddin

\textit{Weighted shortest processing time first} (WSPT) is one of the best known algorithms for total weighted completion time scheduling problems. For each job $J_j$, it first combines the two independent job parameters weight $w_j$ and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Samin Jamalabadi , Uwe Schwiegelshohn

Job shop scheduling problems address the routing and sequencing of tasks in a job shop setting. Despite significant interest from operations research and machine learning communities over the years, a comprehensive platform for testing and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Robbert Reijnen , Igor G. Smit , Hongxiang Zhang , Yaoxin Wu , Zaharah Bukhsh , Yingqian Zhang

This paper considers the scheduling of stochastic jobs on parallel identical machines to minimize the expected total weighted completion time. While this is a classical problem with a significant body of research on approximation algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Benjamin Moseley , Kirk Pruhs , Marc Uetz , Rudy Zhou

This paper considers parallel machine scheduling with incompatibilities between jobs. The jobs form a graph and no two jobs connected by an edge are allowed to be assigned to the same machine. In particular, we study the case where the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Klaus Jansen , Alexandra Lassota , Marten Maack , Tytus Pikies

We study a stochastic single-machine scheduling problem, denoted the Unreliable Job Selection and Sequencing Problem (UJSSP). Given a set of jobs, a subset must be selected for processing on a single machine that is subject to failure. Each…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Alessandro Agnetis , Roel Leus , Emmeline Perneel , Ilaria Salvadori

The constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) involves deciding, given a set of variables and a set of constraints on the variables, whether or not there is an assignment to the variables satisfying all of the constraints. One formulation of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-01-09 Hubie Chen , Benoit Larose

Disjunctive Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a powerful declarative programming paradigm whose main decision problems are located on the second level of the polynomial hierarchy. Identifying tractable fragments and developing efficient…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-01-02 Bernhard Bliem , Sebastian Ordyniak , Stefan Woltran

The parameterized complexity of a problem is considered "settled" once it has been shown to lie in FPT or to be complete for a class in the W-hierarchy or a similar parameterized hierarchy. Several natural parameterized problems have,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-08-14 Christoph Stockhusen , Till Tantau

We address the warehouse servicing problem (WSP) in automated warehouses, which use teams of mobile agents to bring products from shelves to packing stations. Given a list of products, the WSP amounts to finding a plan for a team of agents…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-03 Christopher Leet , Chanwook Oh , Michele Lora , Sven Koenig , Pierluigi Nuzzo

Population protocols are a well established model of computation by anonymous, identical finite state agents. A protocol is well-specified if from every initial configuration, all fair executions reach a common consensus. The central…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Michael Blondin , Javier Esparza , Stefan Jaax , Philipp J. Meyer

Constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) is a well-studied combinatorial search problem, in which we are asked to find an assignment of values to given variables so as to satisfy all of given constraints. We study a reconfiguration variant of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Tatsuhiko Hatanaka , Takehiro Ito , Xiao Zhou

Constraint satisfaction problems form a nicely behaved class of problems that lends itself to complexity classification results. From the point of view of parameterized complexity, a natural task is to classify the parameterized complexity…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Konrad K. Dabrowski , Peter Jonsson , Sebastian Ordyniak , George Osipov , Marcin Pilipczuk , Roohani Sharma