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We study the optimization version of constraint satisfaction problems (Max-CSPs) in the framework of parameterized complexity; the goal is to compute the maximum fraction of constraints that can be satisfied simultaneously. In standard…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Holger Dell , Eun Jung Kim , Michael Lampis , Valia Mitsou , Tobias Mömke

We study constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) where the constraint languages are defined by finite automata, giving rise to automata-based CSPs. The key notion is the concept of Automatic Constraint Satisfaction Problem ($AutCSP$), where…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Andrei Bulatov , Xiaoyang Gong , Bakh Khoussainov , Xinyao Wang

The recently introduced graph parameter tree-cut width plays a similar role with respect to immersions as the graph parameter treewidth plays with respect to minors. In this paper, we provide the first algorithmic applications of tree-cut…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Robert Ganian , Eun Jung Kim , Stefan Szeider

Many fundamental problems in artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, and verification involve reasoning about sets and relations between sets and can be modeled as set constraint satisfaction problems (set CSPs). Such problems…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-07-19 Manuel Bodirsky , Martin Hils , Alex Krimkevich

In this paper we study the classical single machine scheduling problem where the objective is to minimize the total weight of tardy jobs. Our analysis focuses on the case where one or more of three natural parameters is either constant or…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Danny Hermelin , Shlomo Karhi , Mike Pinedo , Dvir Shabtay

In many decision-making processes, one may prefer multiple solutions to a single solution, which allows us to choose an appropriate solution from the set of promising solutions that are found by algorithms. Given this, finding a set of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Tatsuya Gima , Yuni Iwamasa , Yasuaki Kobayashi , Kazuhiro Kurita , Yota Otachi , Rin Saito

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

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

Today's propositional satisfiability (SAT) solvers are extremely powerful and can be used as an efficient back-end for solving NP-complete problems. However, many fundamental problems in knowledge representation and reasoning are located at…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-07-04 Ronald de Haan , Stefan Szeider

A Fixed-Parameter Tractable (\FPT) $\rho$-approximation algorithm for a minimization (resp. maximization) parameterized problem $P$ is an FPT algorithm that, given an instance $(x, k)\in P$ computes a solution of cost at most $k \cdot…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-08-19 Rajesh Chitnis , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Guy Kortsarz

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

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

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

A classic result of Lenstra [Math.~Oper.~Res.~1983] says that an integer linear program can be solved in fixed-parameter tractable (FPT) time for the parameter being the number of variables. We extend this result by incorporating…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Robert Bredereck , Piotr Faliszewski , Rolf Niedermeier , Piotr Skowron , Nimrod Talmon

The Minimum Vertex Cover problem, a classical NP-complete problem, presents significant challenges for exact solution on large graphs. Fixed-Parameter Tractability (FPT) offers a powerful paradigm to address such problems by exploiting a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Mumuksh Tayal

We present the first fixed-parameter tractable (FPT) algorithms for exact computation of generalized hypertree width (ghw) and fractional hypertree width (fhw). Our algorithms are parameterized by the target width, the rank, and the maximum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Matthias Lanzinger , Igor Razgon , Daniel Unterberger

We introduce a sampling-based learning method for solving optimal control problems involving task satisfaction constraints for systems with partially known dynamics. The control problems are defined by a cost to be minimized and a task to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-14 Peter Varnai , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

In the last two decades the study of random instances of constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) has flourished across several disciplines, including computer science, mathematics and physics. The diversity of the developed methods, on the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Konstantinos Panagiotou , Matija Pasch

Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) is a framework for modeling and solving a variety of real-world problems. Once the problem is expressed as a finite set of constraints, the goal is to find the variables' values satisfying them. Even…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Rachid Oucheikh , Ismail Berrada , Outman El Hichami

In this study, we investigate a robust single-machine scheduling problem under processing time uncertainty. The uncertainty is modeled using the budgeted approach, where each job has a nominal and deviation processing time, and the number…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Noam Goldberg , Dvir Shabtay