Exploiting constraints

  • Authors:
  • Toby Walsh

  • Affiliations:
  • NICTA and UNSW, Sydney, Australia

  • Venue:
  • ILP'11 Proceedings of the 21st international conference on Inductive Logic Programming
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Constraints can be exploited in paradigms outside of constraint programming. In particular, powerful global constraints can often be decomposed into small primitives and these decompositions can simulate complex propagation algorithms that perform sophisticated inference about a problem. We illustrate this approach with examples of exploiting constraints in propositional satisfiability (SAT), pseudo-Boolean (PB) solving, integer linear programming (ILP) and answer set programming (ASP).