Cost-based arc consistency for global cardinality constraints

Constraints

Volumn 7, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 387-405

  Régin, Jean Charles ^a  

^a IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

Arc consistency; Cardinality constraints; Cardinality constraints with costs; Constraint satisfaction problem; Filtering algorithm; Global constraint

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; COSTS; POLYNOMIALS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SCHEDULING;

GLOBAL CARDINALITY CONSTRAINTS (GCC);

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 0036663006     PISSN: 13837133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020506526052     Document Type: Conference Paper

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