Pairwise cardinality networks

  • Authors:
  • Michael Codish;Moshe Zazon-Ivry

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University, Israel;Department of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University, Israel

  • Venue:
  • LPAR'10 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Logic for programming, artificial intelligence, and reasoning
  • Year:
  • 2010

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

We introduce pairwise cardinality networks, networks of comparators, derived from pairwise sorting networks, which express cardinality constraints. We show that pairwise cardinality networks are superior to the cardinality networks introduced in previous work which are derived from odd-even sorting networks. Our presentation identifies the precise relationship between odd-even and pairwise sorting networks. This relationship also clarifies why pairwise sorting networks have significantly better propagation properties for the application of cardinality constraints.