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The Essence of Constraint Propagation

Krzysztof R. Apt

cs.AIarXiv:cs/9811024

Abstract

We show that several constraint propagation algorithms (also called (local) consistency, consistency enforcing, Waltz, filtering or narrowing algorithms) are instances of algorithms that deal with chaotic iteration. To this end we propose a simple abstract framework that allows us to classify and compare these algorithms and to establish in a uniform way their basic properties.

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