Dynamic symmetry breaking restarted

  • Authors:
  • Daniel S. Heller;Meinolf Sellmann

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Brown University, Providence, RI;Department of Computer Science, Brown University, Providence, RI

  • Venue:
  • CP'06 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Symmetry breaking by dominance detection (SBDD) [4,6,1,12], has proven to excel on problems that contain large symmetry groups. The core task of SBDD is the dominance detection algorithm. The first automated dominance detection algorithms were based on group theory [7], while the first provably polynomial-time dominance checkers for specific types of value symmetry were devised in [15]. This work was later extended to tackle any kind of value symmetry in polynomial time [13]. Based on these results, for specific “piecewise” symmetric problems, [14] showed that breaking variable and value symmetry can be broken simultaneously in polynomial time. The method was named structural symmetry breaking (SSB) and is based on the structural abstraction of a given partial assignment of values to variables.