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arXiv 1905.09083cs.DMcs.DScs.LO
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基于超图的4-约束满足问题的可处理性

A Hypergraph Based Approach for the 4-Constraint Satisfaction Problem Tractability

Rachid Oucheikh, Ismail Berrada, Outman El Hichami

摘要:

约束满足问题(CSP)是一个用于建模和求解各种现实问题的框架。一旦问题被表示为一组有限的约束条件,目标就是找到满足这些约束条件的变量值。尽管这个问题一般是NP完全的,但有一些近似和实用的技术来解决它的棘手性。最广泛使用的技术之一是约束传播。它包括显式地排除某些变量的值或值的组合,只要它们使给定的约束子集不满足。本文讨论了一个CSP子类,我们称之为4-CSP,它的约束网络推导出以下形式的关系:$\{ x \sim α, x-y \sim β, (x-y) - (z-t) \sim λ\}$,其中$x, y, z$和$t$是实变量,$α, β$和$ λ$是实常数,$ \sim \in \{\leq , \geq \} $ .本文首先给出了4-CSP可处理性的图证明,并详细阐述了基于正线性依赖理论、超图闭包和约束传播技术的4-CSP求解算法。证明了求解算法的时间复杂度和空间复杂度均为多项式。

英文摘要:

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 though the problem is in general NP-complete, there are some approximation and practical techniques to tackle its intractability. One of the most widely used techniques is the Constraint Propagation. It consists in explicitly excluding values or combination of values for some variables whenever they make a given subset of constraints unsatisfied. In this paper, we deal with a CSP subclass which we call 4-CSP and whose constraint network infers relations of the form: $\{ x \sim α, x-y \sim β, (x-y) - (z-t) \sim λ\}$, where $x, y, z$ and $t$ are real variables, $α, β$ and $ λ$ are real constants and $ \sim \in \{\leq , \geq \} $. The paper provides the first graph-based proofs of the 4-CSP tractability and elaborates algorithms for 4-CSP resolution based on the positive linear dependence theory, the hypergraph closure and the constraint propagation technique. Time and space complexities of the resolution algorithms are proved to be polynomial.

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