Constraint satisfaction problems solved by semidefinite relaxations

  • Authors:
  • Mohamed Ettaouil;Chakir Loqman

  • Affiliations:
  • UFR: Scientific calculation and Computing, Engineering sciences, Department of Mathematics and Computer science, Faculty of Science and Technology of Fez, University Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah Fez ...;UFR: Scientific calculation and Computing, Engineering sciences, Department of Mathematics and Computer science, Faculty of Science and Technology of Fez, University Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah Fez ...

  • Venue:
  • WSEAS Transactions on Computers
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We consider the constraint satisfaction problem (CSP), where the values must be assigned to variables which are subject to a set of constraints. This problem is naturally formulated as 0-1 quadratic knapsack problem subject to quadratic constraint. In this paper, we present a branch-and-bound algorithm for 0-1 quadratic programming, which is based on solving semidefinite relaxations. At each node of the enumeration tree, a lower bound is given naturally by the value of (SDP) problem and an upper bound is computed by satisfying the quadratic constraint. We show that this method is able to determine whether a (CSP) has a solution or not. Then we give some hints on how to reduce as much as possible the initial size of the (CSP). Some numerical examples assess the effectiveness of the theoretical results shown in this paper, and the advantage of the new modelization.