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Bounds of graph parameters for global constraints

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2007

Nicolas Beldiceanu ,
Thierry Petit  and
Guillaume Rochart
Nicolas Beldiceanu
Affiliation:
École des Mines de Nantes, LINA FRE CNRS 2729, 44307 Nantes, France; Nicolas.Beldiceanu@emn.fr; Thierry.Petit@emn.fr
Thierry Petit
Affiliation:
École des Mines de Nantes, LINA FRE CNRS 2729, 44307 Nantes, France; Nicolas.Beldiceanu@emn.fr; Thierry.Petit@emn.fr
Guillaume Rochart
Affiliation:
Bouygues e-lab, 78061 St Quentin en Yvelines, France; Grochart@bouygues.com
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Abstract

This article presents a basic scheme for deriving systematically a filtering algorithm from the graph properties based representation of global constraints. This scheme is based on the bounds of the graph parameters used in the description of a global constraint. The article provides bounds for the most common used graph parameters.

Keywords

Global constraintgraph constraintfilteringbound.
Type
Research Article
Information
RAIRO - Operations Research , Volume 40 , Issue 4: Journées Francophones de Programmation par Contraintes 2005 , October 2006 , pp. 327 - 353
Copyright
© EDP Sciences, 2007

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