Many-to-many interchangeable sets of values in CSPs

  • Authors:
  • Chavalit Likitvivatanavong;Roland H. C. Yap

  • Affiliations:
  • National University of Singapore, Singapore;National University of Singapore, Singapore

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Onto-substitutability has been shown to be intrinsic to how a domain value is considered redundant. A value is onto-substitutable if any solution involving that value remains a solution when that value is replaced by some other value. We redefine onto-substitutability to accommodate binary relationships and study its implication. Joint interchangeability, an extension of onto-substitutability to its interchangeability counterpart, emerges as one of the results. We propose a new way of removing interchangeable values by constructing a new value as an intermediate step, as well as introduce virtual interchangeability, a local reasoning that leads to joint interchangeability and allows values to be merged together.