Bounds of graph parameters for global constraints
Nicolas Beldiceanu; Thierry Petit; Guillaume Rochart[1]
- [1] Bouygues e-lab, 78061 St Quentin en Yvelines, France
RAIRO - Operations Research - Recherche Opérationnelle (2006)
- Volume: 40, Issue: 4, page 327-353
- ISSN: 0399-0559
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topBeldiceanu, Nicolas, Petit, Thierry, and Rochart, Guillaume. "Bounds of graph parameters for global constraints." RAIRO - Operations Research - Recherche Opérationnelle 40.4 (2006): 327-353. <http://eudml.org/doc/245769>.
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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.},
affiliation = {Bouygues e-lab, 78061 St Quentin en Yvelines, France},
author = {Beldiceanu, Nicolas, Petit, Thierry, Rochart, Guillaume},
journal = {RAIRO - Operations Research - Recherche Opérationnelle},
keywords = {global constraint; graph constraint; filtering; bound},
language = {eng},
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title = {Bounds of graph parameters for global constraints},
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