Solving periodic event scheduling problems with SAT

  • Authors:
  • Peter Großmann;Steffen Hölldobler;Norbert Manthey;Karl Nachtigall;Jens Opitz;Peter Steinke

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculty of Computer Science, TU Dresden, Germany,Faculty of Transport and Traffic Science, TU Dresden, Germany;Faculty of Computer Science, TU Dresden, Germany;Faculty of Computer Science, TU Dresden, Germany;Faculty of Transport and Traffic Science, TU Dresden, Germany;Faculty of Transport and Traffic Science, TU Dresden, Germany;Faculty of Computer Science, TU Dresden, Germany

  • Venue:
  • IEA/AIE'12 Proceedings of the 25th international conference on Industrial Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems: advanced research in applied artificial intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

In this paper, periodic event scheduling problems (PESP) are encoded as satisfiability problems (SAT) and solved by a state-of-the-art SAT solver. Two encodings, based on direct and order encoded domains, are presented. An experimental evaluation suggests that the SAT-based approach using order encoding outperforms constraint-based PESP solvers, which until now were considered to be the best solvers for PESP. This opens the possibility to model significantly larger real-world problems.