When the Decomposition Meets the Constraint Satisfaction Problem

Autor: Youcef Djenouri, Djamel Djenouri, Zineb Habbas, Jerry Chun-Wei Lin, Tomasz P. Michalak, Alberto Cano
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: IEEE Access, Vol 8, Pp 207034-207043 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2169-3536
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3038228
Popis: This paper explores the joint use of decomposition methods and parallel computing for solving constraint satisfaction problems and introduces a framework called Parallel Decomposition for Constraint Satisfaction Problems (PD-CSP). The main idea is that the set of constraints are first clustered using a decomposition algorithm in which highly correlated constraints are grouped together. Next, parallel search of variables is performed on the produced clusters in a way that is friendly for parallel computing. In particular, for the first step, we propose the adaptation of two well-known clustering algorithms (k-means and DBSCAN). For the second step, we develop a GPU-based approach to efficiently explore the clusters. The results from the extensive experimental evaluation show that the PD-CSP provides competitive results in terms of accuracy and runtime.
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