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Why is Scheduling Difficult? A CSP Perspective

Mark S. Fox and Norman Sadeh-Koniecpol
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 9th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI '90), pp. 754 - 767, August, 1990

Abstract

Interest in Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSP) continues to grow, fueled by both their uniform problem representation, i.e., constraint graph, and conceptually clear problem solver, i.e., heuristically guided variable and value ordering. With the advent of interval constraints, e.g, temporal and spatial, and their associated consistency techniques, and the availability of Constraint Language Programming (CLP) it has become possible to explore complex problems such as planning and scheduling. This paper explores how a sequence of successively more complex scheduling problems can be modeled as a CSP, and the relevance of existing CSP problem solving heuristics.

BibTeX

@conference{Fox-1990-13142,
author = {Mark S. Fox and Norman Sadeh-Koniecpol},
title = {Why is Scheduling Difficult? A CSP Perspective},
booktitle = {Proceedings of 9th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI '90)},
year = {1990},
month = {August},
pages = {754 - 767},
}