Service-Oriented volunteer computing for massively parallel constraint solving using portfolios

  • Authors:
  • Zeynep Kiziltan;Jacopo Mauro

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, Italy;Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, Italy

  • Venue:
  • CPAIOR'10 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Recent years have witnessed growing interest in parallelising constraint solving based on tree search (see [1] for a brief overview). One approach is search-space splitting in which different parts of the tree are explored in parallel (e.g. [2]). Another approach is the use of algorithm portfolios. This technique exploits the significant variety in performance observed between different algorithms and combines them in a portfolio [3]. In constraint solving, an algorithm can be a solver or a tuning of a solver. Portfolios have often been run in an interleaving fashion (e.g. [4]). Their use in a parallel context is more recent ([5], [1]).