Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 2, Suppl. (C), 2006
ISSN: 1574-6526
doi: 10.1016/S1574-6526(06)80024-6
Chapter 20 Distributed Constraint Programming
Constraint satisfaction and optimization problems often involve multiple participants. For example, producing an automobile involves a supply chain of many companies. Scheduling production, delivery and assembly of the different parts would best be solved as a constraint optimization problem ([35]). A more familiar task for most of us is meeting scheduling: arrange a set of meetings with varying participants such that no two meetings involving the same person are scheduled at the same time, while respecting order and deadline constraints ([18, 22]). Another application ...
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