Advisors for Incremental Propagation
Mikael Z. Lagerkvist, Christian Schulte.
While incremental propagation for global constraints is recognized to be important, little research has been devoted to how propagator-centered constraint programming systems should support incremental propagation. This paper introduces advisors as a simple and efficient, yet widely applicable method for supporting incremental propagation in a propagator-centered setting. The paper presents how advisors can be used for achieving different forms of incrementality and evaluates cost and benefit for several global constraints.
In: Christian Bessière, editor, Thirteenth International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, Providence, RI, USA, volume 4741 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 409-422. Springer-Verlag, September, 2007. DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-74970-7_30.
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