A unified theory of structural tractability for constraint satisfaction problems

In this paper we derive a generic form of structural decomposition for the constraint satisfaction problem, which we call a guarded decomposition. We show that many existing decomposition methods can be characterised in terms of finding guarded decompositions satisfying certain specified additional...

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Main Authors: Cohen, D, Jeavons, P, Gyssens, M
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2008