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Programs to solve so-called constraint problems are complex pieces of software which require many design decisions to be made more or less arbitrarily by the implementer. These decisions affect the performance of the finished solver…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-05-20 Lars Kotthoff , Ian Gent , Ian Miguel

We introduce the task of algorithm class prediction for programming word problems. A programming word problem is a problem written in natural language, which can be solved using an algorithm or a program. We define classes of various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Vinayak Athavale , Aayush Naik , Rajas Vanjape , Manish Shrivastava

Constraint programming can definitely be seen as a model-driven paradigm. The users write programs for modeling problems. These programs are mapped to executable models to calculate the solutions. This paper focuses on efficient model…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-02-16 Raphael Chenouard , Laurent Granvilliers , Ricardo Soto

In most machine learning applications, classification accuracy is not the primary metric of interest. Binary classifiers which face class imbalance are often evaluated by the $F_\beta$ score, area under the precision-recall curve, Precision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Alan Mackey , Xiyang Luo , Elad Eban

Constraint programming (CP) is a paradigm used to model and solve constraint satisfaction and combinatorial optimization problems. In CP, problems are modeled with constraints that describe acceptable solutions and solved with backtracking…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-29 Kyle E. C. Booth , Bryan O'Gorman , Jeffrey Marshall , Stuart Hadfield , Eleanor Rieffel

Functional constraints and bi-functional constraints are an important constraint class in Constraint Programming (CP) systems, in particular for Constraint Logic Programming (CLP) systems. CP systems with finite domain constraints usually…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-06-17 Yuanlin Zhang , Roland H. C. Yap

This paper focuses on integrating the networks and adversarial training into constrained optimization problems to develop a framework algorithm for constrained optimization problems. For such problems, we first transform them into minimax…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-08 Gang Bao , Dong Wang , Boyi Zou

Slicing is a program analysis technique originally developed for imperative languages. It facilitates understanding of data flow and debugging. This paper discusses slicing of Constraint Logic Programs. Constraint Logic Programming (CLP) is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Gyongyi Szilagyi , Tibor Gyimothy , Jan Maluszynski

We study a class of combinatorial scheduling problems characterized by a particular type of constraint often associated with electrical power or gas energy. This constraint appears in several practical applications and is expressed as a sum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Trung Thanh Nguyen , Khaled Elbassioni , Areg Karapetyan , Majid Khonji

Benchmarking optimization algorithms is fundamental for the advancement of computational intelligence. However, widely adopted artificial test suites exhibit limited correspondence with the diversity and complexity of real-world engineering…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Stefan Ivić , Siniša Družeta , Luka Grbčić

We introduce a constraint-based framework for studying infinite qualitative simulations concerned with contingencies such as time, space, shape, size, abstracted into a finite set of qualitative relations. To define the simulations, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Krzysztof R. Apt , Sebastian Brand

In a facility with front room and back room operations, it is useful to switch workers between the rooms in order to cope with changing customer demand. Assuming stochastic customer arrival and service times, we seek a policy for switching…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-11-02 Daria Terekhov , J. Christopher Beck

In order to compare and benchmark the mathematical software, the performance profiles have been introduced [1]. However, it has been proved that the algorithm is not flawless. The main issue with the performance profile is that it may rank…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-31 Rasoul Hekmati , Hanieh Mirhajianmoghadam

Switching-constrained optimization problems form a difficult class of mathematical programs since their feasible set is almost disconnected while standard constraint qualifications are likely to fail at several feasible points. That is why…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-10 Christian Kanzow , Patrick Mehlitz , Daniel Steck

Linear integer constraints are one of the most important constraints in combinatorial problems since they are commonly found in many practical applications. Typically, encodings to Boolean satisfiability (SAT) format of conjunctive normal…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Ignasi Abío , Valentin Mayer-Eichberger , Peter Stuckey

We introduce a parallel machine scheduling problem in which the processing times of jobs are not given in advance but are determined by a system of linear constraints. The objective is to minimize the makespan, i.e., the maximum job…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-10-30 Kameng Nip , Zhenbo Wang , Zizhuo Wang

This paper addresses the incompatible case of parallel batch scheduling, where compatible jobs belong to the same family, and jobs from different families cannot be processed together in the same batch. The state-of-the-art constraint…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Jorge A. Huertas , Pascal Van Hentenryck

Constraint answer set programming or CASP, for short, is a hybrid approach in automated reasoning putting together the advances of distinct research areas such as answer set programming, constraint processing, and satisfiability modulo…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Yuliya Lierler

Due to the limited connectivity of gate model quantum devices, logical quantum circuits must be compiled to target hardware before they can be executed. Often, this process involves the insertion of SWAP gates into the logical circuit,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 Kyle E. C. Booth

Service requesters with limited technical knowledge should be able to compare services based on their quality of service (QoS) requirements in cloud service marketplaces. Existing service matching approaches focus on QoS requirements as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-07-25 Begüm İlke Zilci , Mathias Slawik , Axel Küpper