Dynamic virtual arc consistency

  • Authors:
  • Hiep Nguyen;Thomas Schiex;Christian Bessiere

  • Affiliations:
  • Unité de Biométrie et Intelligence Artificielle, INRA, Toulouse, France;Unité de Biométrie et Intelligence Artificielle, INRA, Toulouse, France;University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France

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

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Abstract

Virtual Arc Consistency (VAC) is a recent local consistency for processing Cost Function Networks (or Weighted Constraint Networks) that exploits a simple but powerful connection with classical Constraint Networks. It has allowed to close hard frequency assignment benchmarks and is capable of directly solving networks of submodular functions. The algorithm enforcing VAC is an iterative algorithm that solves a sequence of classical Constraint Networks. In this work, we show that Dynamic Arc Consistency algorithms can be suitably injected in the virtual arc consistency iterative algorithm, providing noticeable speedups.