Solving constraint optimization problems in anytime contexts

  • Authors:
  • Samir Loudni;Patrice Boizumault

  • Affiliations:
  • Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Nantes Cedex 3, France;GREYC, CNRS, UMR, Universite de Caen, Caen Cedex, France

  • Venue:
  • IJCAI'03 Proceedings of the 18th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

This paper presents a new hybrid method for solving constraint optimization problems in anytime contexts. Discrete optimization problems are modelled as Valued CSP. Our method (VNS/LDS+CP) combines a Variable Neighborhood Search and Limited Discrepancy Search with Constraint Propagation to efficiently guide the search. Experiments on the CELAR benchmarks demonstrate significant improvements over other competing methods. VNS/LDS+CP has been successfully applied to solve a real-life anytime resource allocation problem in computer networks.