Logic-Based 0-1 Constraint Programming / Edition 1

by Peter Barth

Overview

A logic view of 0-1 integer programming problems, providing new insights into the structure of problems that can lead the researcher to more effective solution techniques depending on the problem class. Operations research techniques are integrated into a logic programming environment. The first monographic treatment that begins to unify these two methodological approaches.
Logic-based methods for modelling and solving combinatorial problems have recently started to play a significant role in both theory and practice. The application of logic to combinatorial problems has a dual aspect. On one hand, constraint logic programming allows one to declaratively model combinatorial problems over an appropriate constraint domain, the problems then being solved by a corresponding constraint solver. Besides being a high-level declarative interface to the constraint solver, the logic programming language allows one also to implement those subproblems that cannot be naturally expressed with constraints. On the other hand, logic-based methods can be used as a constraint solving technique within a constraint solver for combinatorial problems modelled as 0-1 integer programs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780792396635
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	11/30/1995
Series:	Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces Series , #5
Edition description:	1996
Pages:	254
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

1 Introduction.- 1.1 CLP and Combinatorial Optimization.- 1.2 Logic-based Pseudo-Boolean Constraint Solving.- 2 Constraint Logic Programming.- 2.1 CLP by Example.- 2.2 Semantics.- 2.3 Constraint Solving.- 2.4 Local Consistency and CLP.- 2.5 Logic Programming with Pseudo-Boolean Constraints.- 2.6 Existing CLP-systems for combinatorial optimization.- 3 Pseudo-Boolean Constraints.- 3.1 Preliminaries.- 3.2 Previous Work.- 3.3 Generalized Resolution.- 4 A Logic Cut Based Constraint Solver.- 4.1 The Solved Form.- 4.2 Reaching the Solved Form.- 5 Pseudo-Boolean Unit Resolution.- 5.1 The Classical Davis-Putnam Procedure.- 5.2 Davis-Putnam for Linear Pseudo-Boolean Inequalities.- 5.3 Optimizing with Pseudo-Boolean Davis-Putnam.- 5.4 Implementation.- 5.5 Heuristics.- 5.6 Computational Results.- 5.7 Pseudo-Boolean Davis-Putnam for CLP.- 6 Logic Cuts and Enumeration.- 6.1 Valid Extended Clauses by Enumeration.- 6.2 A Pure Logic Cut Algorithm.- 6.3 Entailment and Logic Cuts.- 7 Linear Pseudo-Boolean Inequalities and Extended Clauses.- 7.1 Generating Valid Extended Clauses.- 7.2 Identifying Redundant Extended Clauses.- 7.3 Implementation.- 7.4 Symmetries.- 7.5 Detection of Fixed Literals.- 7.6 Constrained Simplification.- 7.7 Cut Generation for 0–1 Integer Programming.- 7.8 Implementing Resolution.- 8 Simplification.- 8.1 An Order for Extended Clauses.- 8.2 Simplifying Diagonal Sums.- 8.3 Simplifying Resolvents.- 8.4 Equations between Literals.- 9 Linearization.- 9.1 Previous Work.- 9.2 A Linearization Method.- 9.3 Deriving Lower Bounds.- 9.4 Further Improvements.- 10 Projection.- 10.1 Projection for Prime Extended Clauses.- 10.2 Projection for Extended Clauses.- 10.3 Improvements.- 11 Conclusion.- 11.1 Summary of Results.- 11.2 Related and Future Research.- References.

Editorial Reviews

Addressed to two distinct audiences. For developers and users of constraint logic programming systems, discusses the requirements of integrating techniques for combinatorial optimization, identifies problems that are expected to arise, and presents solution to a logic-based approach. For researchers in operations, introduces logic-based techniques for solving 1-0 problems that in some cases turn out to be superior to the classical polyhedral view underlying systems based on linear programming. Revised from a 1995 PhD dissertation for the University of Saarbrucken. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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