Benefits and Problems of Using Cycle-Cutset Within Iterative Improvement Algorithms
Abstract:
Some experiments on randomly generated partial constraint satisfaction problems as well as an example from the domain of real world nurse rostering illustrate the advantage of the cyclecutset method as a repair step in iterative search. These results motivate the integration of adopted algorithms on solving tree-structured constraint problems and the cycle-cutset method into modern constraint-based optimization with branch-and-bound and propagation of global constraints. 1

