A New Framework for Sharp and Efficient Resolution of NCSP with Manifolds of Solutions

  • Authors:
  • Alexandre Goldsztejn;Laurent Granvilliers

  • Affiliations:
  • CNRS, LINA, UMR 6241,;Université de Nantes, Nantes Atlantique Université, CNRS, LINA, UMR 6241,

  • Venue:
  • CP '08 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

When numerical CSPs are used to solve systems of nequations with nvariables, the interval Newton operator plays a key role: It acts like a global constraint, hence achieving a powerful contraction, and proves rigorously the existence of solutions. However, both advantages cannot be used for under-constrained systems of equations, which have manifolds of solutions. A new framework is proposed in this paper to extend the advantages of the interval Newton to under-constrained systems of equations. This is done simply by permitting domains of CSPs to be parallelepipeds instead of the usual boxes.