IBP-Laforia
1996/19:
Rapport de Recherche Laforia /
Laforia research reports
34 pages - Octobre/October 1996 -
French document.
PostScript : 103 Ko /Kb
Titre / Title: PROPAGATION DE CONTRAINTES OU PROGRAMMATION AUTOMATIQUE
Abstract : After an initial assessment of NP-complete problems and existing problem solvers, the author goes on to consider all the cases where a propagation + choice approach is not efficient. The system is incapable of finding the symmetries of the problem and either it endlessly studies equivalent situations or it determines a quasi-optimal solution and then wastes time proving this optimality, or else it takes most of the constraints into account but then, when having to deal with an under-constrained problem, wastes time propagating useless information.
To overcome these problems,, automatic programming would seem to be an ideal solution for the author.
Concrete examples are given and RABBIT, a new software deriving from ALICE, is described. This software can generate programs containing thousands of instructions which can be run up to one hundred times faster than a pure CSP.
Publications internes Laforia 1996 / Laforia research reports 1996