Resource temporal networks: definition and complexity

  • Authors:
  • Philippe Laborie

  • Affiliations:
  • ILOG, Gentilly Cedex, France

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

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Abstract

This paper introduces the concept of Resource Temporal Network (RTN), a constraint network that subsumes both classical attributes used in A.I. Planning and capacity resources traditionally handled in Scheduling. After giving a formal definition of RTNs, we analyze their expressive power and study complexities of several fragments of the RTN framework. We show that solving an RTN is in general NP-Complete - which is not surprising given the expressivity of the framework - whereas computing a Necessary Truth Criterion is polynomial. This last result opens the door for promising algorithms to solve RTNs.