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Cohen, David A.

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2018.19
On Singleton Arc Consistency for CSPs Defined by Monotone Patterns

Authors: Clément Carbonnel, David A. Cohen, Martin C. Cooper, and Stanislav Zivny

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 96, 35th Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2018)

Abstract
Singleton arc consistency is an important type of local consistency which has been recently shown to solve all constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) over constraint languages of bounded width. We aim to characterise all classes of CSPs defined by a forbidden pattern that are solved by singleton arc consistency and closed under removing constraints. We identify five new patterns whose absence ensures solvability by singleton arc consistency, four of which are provably maximal and three of which generalise 2-SAT. Combined with simple counter-examples for other patterns, we make significant progress towards a complete classification.
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Clément Carbonnel, David A. Cohen, Martin C. Cooper, and Stanislav Zivny. On Singleton Arc Consistency for CSPs Defined by Monotone Patterns. In 35th Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 96, pp. 19:1-19:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018)

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@InProceedings{carbonnel_et_al:LIPIcs.STACS.2018.19,
  author =	{Carbonnel, Cl\'{e}ment and Cohen, David A. and Cooper, Martin C. and Zivny, Stanislav},
  title =	{{On Singleton Arc Consistency for CSPs Defined by Monotone Patterns}},
  booktitle =	{35th Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2018)},
  pages =	{19:1--19:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-062-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2018},
  volume =	{96},
  editor =	{Niedermeier, Rolf and Vall\'{e}e, Brigitte},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2018.19},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-84876},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2018.19},
  annote =	{Keywords: constraint satisfaction problems, forbidden patterns, singleton arc consistency}
}

Cohen, David

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DOI: 10.4230/DagSemProc.06401.3
A Unifying Theory of Structural Decompostions for the Constraint Satisfaction Problems

Authors: David Cohen, Marc Gyssens, and Peter Jeavons

Published in: Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 6401, Complexity of Constraints (2006)

Abstract
In this talk (draft paper) we develop the theory of structural decompositions for the CSP. We begin with the very general notion of a guarded decomposition and make several simplifying assumptions to arrive a the definition of an acyclic guarded cover. We show how many existing decompositions can seen as acyclic guarded covers. We develop a generic algorithm for discovering acyclic guarded covers under the further assumption that they have a join tree satisfying a simple extra condition. We show that many existing decompositions do in fact satisfy this extra condition. Using this theory we are able to describe a new class of structural decompostion which we call spread cuts. These generalise many existing decomposition methods. We present a class of hypergraphs whose spread cut width is significantly smaller than their hypertree width. The definition of a guarded decomposition and the algorithm for discovering them were motvated by the similar algorithms developed by Gottlob, Scarcello and Leone in their work on hypertrees. The authors also wish to acknowledge that an acyclic guarded decomposition is very similar to a generalised hypertree decomposition as described in the hypertree literature.
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David Cohen, Marc Gyssens, and Peter Jeavons. A Unifying Theory of Structural Decompostions for the Constraint Satisfaction Problems. In Complexity of Constraints. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 6401, pp. 1-22, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2006)

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@InProceedings{cohen_et_al:DagSemProc.06401.3,
  author =	{Cohen, David and Gyssens, Marc and Jeavons, Peter},
  title =	{{A Unifying Theory of Structural Decompostions for the Constraint Satisfaction Problems}},
  booktitle =	{Complexity of Constraints},
  pages =	{1--22},
  series =	{Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)},
  ISSN =	{1862-4405},
  year =	{2006},
  volume =	{6401},
  editor =	{Nadia Creignou and Phokion Kolaitis and Heribert Vollmer},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.06401.3},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-8017},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagSemProc.06401.3},
  annote =	{Keywords: Structural decomposition, spread cut}
}
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