Questions tagged [constraint-satisfaction-problems]
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What are the differences between constraint satisfaction problems and linear programming?
I have taken an algorithms course where we talked about LP significantly, and also many reductions to LPs. As I recall, normal LP is not NP-Hard. Integer LP is NP-Hard. I am currently taking an ...
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How can I design a system that suggests physical exercises to a person while keeping into account the fatigue?
I want to create an exercise suggester. Each day either has a routine or is a rest day. A routine has 4 slots. For each slot we select an exercise. We constrain the legal exercises, only do upper-body ...
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Constraint Satisfaction for light switches problem
While revising on the topic of constraint satisfaction, I came across a question on light switches which asks us to formulate the problem as a CSP. This problem was taken from
stanford's cs221 ...
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How do I decide which norm to use for placing a constraint on my adversarial perturbation?
I am performing an adversarial machine learning attack on a neural network for network traffic classification. For adding adversarial perturbations in features such as packet interarrival times and ...
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Where can I find example data for Nonogram solver?
I made CSP nonogram solver and I wanna test it on some bigger data.
Where can I find such data to test my program? I've been looking on the internet but I couldn't find anything.
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How can I formulate a nonogram problem as a constraint satisfaction problem?
I've just started learning CSP and I find it quite exciting. Now I'm facing nonogram solving problem and I want to solve it using backtracking with CSP.
The first problem that I face is that I cannot ...
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Can the degree and minimum remaining values heuristics be used in conjunction?
I am currently studying constraint satisfaction problems and have come across two heuristics for variable selection. The minimum remaining values(MRV) heuristic and the degree heuristic.
The MRV ...
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How can I develop a genetic algorithm with a constraint on the sum of alleles?
I'm working on a genetic algorithm with a constraint on the sum of the alleles, e.g. if we use regular binary coding and a chromosome is 5-bits long I'd like to constrain it so that the sum of the ...
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What is exactly the role of commutative property in a Constraint Satisfaction Problem?
I have been looking into the backtracking search for CSPs, and understand that if we just plainly do a typical depth-limited search we have a vast tree with leaves size n!d^n where n is the # of ...
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How can I formulate the k-knights problem as a constraint satisfaction problem?
There are three things in every constraint satisfaction problem (CSP):
Variables
Domain
Constraints
In the given scenario, I know how to identify the constraints, but I don't know how to identify ...
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Which algorithm can I use to solve a problem with multiple objectives and constraints?
Consider a problem with many objectives. In my case, these are school grades for different courses (or subjects). To be more concrete, suppose that my current grade for the math course is $12/20$ and ...
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How can I assign agents to tasks based on time and affinity?
I am working on an assignment problem.
Consider $K$ agents $A_1, \dots A_K$ and $N$ tasks $T_1, \dots T_N$. Each task has a certain time $t(T_i)$ to be completed and each agent has a matching (or ...
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Algorithm for pretty printing CSP graph visualization to be easy to understand?
I'm trying to come up with an algorithm to print complex CSP graphs in a easy to understand manner. I originally thought maybe to center constraints around their domain nodes but that probably won't ...
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Write Constraint Satisfaction Formulation for problem
Given $F_1,F_2,..,F_n$ as set of final exams of subjects taken by students $S_1,..,S_k$ in h slots such that no student takes two exams in a single slot.Here the objective is to maximize the number of ...
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Can AC-3 algorithm solve N-Queens problem?
I am building CSP NQueens solver and apply the AC-3 algorithm.But,the domain reduction doesn't occur and gets more search time.How does it happen?Is it a nature of AC-3 algorithm?
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What is local consistency in constraint satisfaction problems?
In the Constraint Propagation in CSP, it is often stated that pre-processing can solve the whole problem, so no search is required at all. And the key idea is local consistency. What does this ...
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Understanding Constraint Search
What is the goal of a constraint solver? How are constraints propagated in a constraint satisfaction search?
Any references are also appreciated.
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What are daily life examples of SAT problems?
What are (good) daily life examples of SAT problems?
I've thought about this one. The problem of placing a bunch of different kinds of glasses in a shared cabinet in such a way that some constraints ...
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How to turn a ternary constraint into three binary constraints?
I'm trying to solve problem 6.6 from the book Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, by Peter Norvig and Stuart Russell.
This is in the context of Constraint Satisfaction Problem and how you can ...
