Speeding up constraint propagation by-redundant modeling

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1118, Issue , 1996, Pages 91-103

  Cheng, B M W ^a   Lee, J H M ^a   Wu, J C K ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Constraint propagation; Nurse rostering; Redundant modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957867827     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-61551-2_68     Document Type: Conference Paper

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