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The fixed template Promise Constraint Satisfaction Problem (PCSP) is a recently proposed significant generalization of the fixed template CSP, which includes approximation variants of satisfiability and graph coloring problems. All the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Libor Barto

A constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) is a problem of computing a homomorphism ${\bf R} \rightarrow {\bf \Gamma}$ between two relational structures. Analyzing its complexity has been a very fruitful research direction, especially for…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Rustem Takhanov

In the constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) corresponding to a constraint language (i.e., a set of relations) $\Gamma$, the goal is to find an assignment of values to variables so that a given set of constraints specified by relations from…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-01-21 Andrei A. Bulatov , Dániel Marx

In a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) the goal is to find an assignment of a given set of variables subject to specified constraints. A global cardinality constraint is an additional requirement that prescribes how many variables must…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Andrei A. Bulatov , Daniel Marx

We show that several important resource allocation problems in wireless networks fit within the common framework of Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSPs). Inspired by the requirements of these applications, where variables are located at…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-09-19 K. R. Duffy , C. Bordenave , D. J. Leith

We prove a complexity dichotomy theorem for all non-negative weighted counting Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSP). This caps a long series of important results on counting problems including unweighted and weighted graph homomorphisms…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-12-30 Jin-Yi Cai , Xi Chen , Pinyan Lu

In this paper we describe an original computational model for solving different types of Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems (DCSP). The proposed model is called Controller-Agents for Constraints Solving (CACS). This model is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-03-03 Sami Al-Maqtari , Habib Abdulrab , Eduard Babkin

A classic result due to Schaefer (1978) classifies all constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) over the Boolean domain as being either in $\mathsf{P}$ or $\mathsf{NP}$-hard. This paper considers a promise-problem variant of CSPs called…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Joshua Brakensiek , Venkatesan Guruswami

Constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) are an important formal framework for the uniform treatment of various prominent AI tasks, e.g., coloring or scheduling problems. Solving CSPs is, in general, known to be NP-complete and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Hubie Chen , Georg Gottlob , Matthias Lanzinger , Reinhard Pichler

We investigate the Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) over templates with a group structure, and algorithms solving CSP that are equivariant, i.e. invariant under a natural group action induced by a template. Our main result is a method…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-04-06 Sławomir Lasota

We give a complexity dichotomy theorem for the counting Constraint Satisfaction Problem (#CSP in short) with complex weights. To this end, we give three conditions for its tractability. Let F be any finite set of complex-valued functions,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Jin-Yi Cai , Xi Chen

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

In 2007 it was conjectured that the Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) over a constraint language $\Gamma$ is tractable if and only if $\Gamma$ is preserved by a weak near-unanimity (WNU) operation. After many efforts and partial…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Dmitriy Zhuk

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 the field of constraint satisfaction problems (CSP), promise CSPs are an exciting new direction of study. In a promise CSP, each constraint comes in two forms: "strict" and "weak," and in the associated decision problem one must…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Joshua Brakensiek , Venkatesan Guruswami , Marcin Wrochna , Stanislav Živný

A Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) is a computational problem where we are given variables and constraints about them; the question is whether the variables can be assigned values such that all constraints are satisfied. We give an…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Michael Pinsker

Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) is a fundamental algorithmic problem that appears in many areas of Computer Science. It can be equivalently stated as computing a homomorphism $\mbox{$\bR \rightarrow \bGamma$}$ between two relational…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-10-27 Vladimir Kolmogorov , Michal Rolinek , Rustem Takhanov

The algebraic dichotomy conjecture for Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSPs) of reducts of (infinite) finitely bounded homogeneous structures states that such CSPs are polynomial-time tractable when the model-complete core of the template…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Manuel Bodirsky , Antoine Mottet , Miroslav Olšák , Jakub Opršal , Michael Pinsker , Ross Willard

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

Real life problems such as scheduling meeting between people at different locations can be modelled as distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSPs). Suitable and satisfactory solutions can then be found using constraint satisfaction…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-09-04 Ibrahim Adeyanju