Quantified constraint satisfaction problems: from relaxations to explanations

  • Authors:
  • Alex Ferguson;Barry O'Sullivan

  • Affiliations:
  • Cork Constraint Computation Centre, University College Cork, Ireland and Centre for Telecommunications Value-Chain Research;Cork Constraint Computation Centre, University College Cork, Ireland and Centre for Telecommunications Value-Chain Research

  • Venue:
  • IJCAI'07 Proceedings of the 20th international joint conference on Artifical intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The Quantified Constraint Satisfaction Problem (QCSP) is a generalisation of the classical CSP in which some of variables can be universally quantified. In this paper, we extend two well-known concepts in classical constraint satisfaction to the quantified case: problem relaxation and explanation of inconsistency. We show that the generality of the QCSP allows for a number of different forms of relaxation not available in classical CSP. We further present an algorithmfor computing a generalisation of conflict-based explanations of inconsistency for the QCSP.