mathematics and theoretical computer science, a set constraint is an equation or an inequation between sets of terms. Similar to systems of (in)equations...

research. In constraint programming, users declaratively state the constraints on the feasible solutions for a set of decision variables. Constraints differ...

very small number of constraints. There is always at least one constraint, and TOC uses a focusing process to identify the constraint and restructure the...

intelligence and operations research, constraint satisfaction is the process of finding a solution through a set of constraints that impose conditions that the...

Constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) are mathematical questions defined as a set of objects whose state must satisfy a number of constraints or limitations...

variable-vertices and the hyperedges as the sets of variable-vertices connected to each constraint-vertex. The primal constraint graph or simply primal graph (also...

constraints, inequality constraints, and integer constraints. The set of candidate solutions that satisfy all constraints is called the feasible set....

Constraint logic programming is a form of constraint programming, in which logic programming is extended to include concepts from constraint satisfaction...

the active-set method is an algorithm used to identify the active constraints in a set of inequality constraints. The active constraints are then expressed...

submodular level set constraint (also known as submodular optimization subject to submodular cover or submodular knapsack constraint) admits bounded approximation...

choose values for a set of variables such that the cost of a set of constraints over the variables is minimized. Distributed Constraint Satisfaction is a...

maximized. Constraints can be either hard constraints, which set conditions for the variables that are required to be satisfied, or soft constraints, which...

satisfy a constraint, but not all, the subsets of the set are considered. In this way, if no elements of a set can satisfy the constraint the whole set can...

universal constraint set, Con. Part of language acquisition can then be described as the process of adjusting the ranking of these constraints. Optimality...

Geometric constraint solving is constraint satisfaction in a computational geometry setting, which has primary applications in computer aided design. A...

finding the local maxima and minima of a function subject to equation constraints (i.e., subject to the condition that one or more equations have to be...

In constraint satisfaction, a decomposition method translates a constraint satisfaction problem into another constraint satisfaction problem that is binary...

CHR program, sometimes called a constraint handler, is a set of rules that maintain a constraint store, a multi-set of logical formulas. Execution of...

satisfy the problem's constraints, potentially including inequalities, equalities, and integer constraints. This is the initial set of candidate solutions...

fulfilling a set of constraints. It simply means that it runs shortest path algorithm after pruning those links that violate a given set of constraints. A constraint...

acceptable design alternative Feasibility: Values for set of variables that satisfies all constraints and minimizes/maximizes Objective. The formal mathematical...

In constraint satisfaction, local consistency conditions are properties of constraint satisfaction problems related to the consistency of subsets of variables...

first-class constraint is a dynamical quantity in a constrained Hamiltonian system whose Poisson bracket with all the other constraints vanishes on the...

A binary constraint, in mathematical optimization, is a constraint that involves exactly two variables. For example, consider the n-queens problem, where...

constraint of the original problem. The domain of each such variable is the set of satisfying tuples of the corresponding constraint. The constraints...

length or diameter of circles can be set to have the same dimension (e.g., radius or length). Moreover, the constraint may be applied to solid models to...

subject to a holonomic constraint, but if the particle is able to fall off the sphere under the influence of gravity, the constraint becomes non-holonomic...

abstraction layer. A domain describes the set of possible values for a given attribute, and can be considered a constraint on the value of the attribute. Mathematically...

Hamiltonian constraint arises from any theory that admits a Hamiltonian formulation and is reparametrisation-invariant. The Hamiltonian constraint of general...

relational databases, a foreign key is subject to an inclusion dependency constraint that the tuples consisting of the foreign key attributes in one relation...