Functional elimination and 0/1/All constraints

  • Authors:
  • Yuanlin Zhang;Roland H. C. Yap;Joxan Jaffar

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • AAAI '99/IAAI '99 Proceedings of the sixteenth national conference on Artificial intelligence and the eleventh Innovative applications of artificial intelligence conference innovative applications of artificial intelligence
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

We present new complexity results on the class of 0/1/All constraints. The central idea involves functional elimination, a general method of elimination whose focus is on the subclass of functional constraints. One result is that for the subclass of "All" constraints, strong n-consistency and minimality is achievable in O(en) time, where e, n are the number of constraints and variables. The main result is that we can solve 0/1/All constraints in O(e(d + n)) time, where d is the domain size. This is an improvement over known results, which are O(ed(d+n)). Furthermore, our algorithm also achieves strong n-consistency and minimality.