@inproceedings{10932, title = "Minimal Weighted Clones with Boolean Support", author = "Peter G. Jeavons and Andrius Vaicenavičius and Stanislav Živný", year = "2016", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 46th IEEE International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic, ISMVL 2016, Sapporo, Japan, May 18-20, 2016", editor = "Takahiro Hanyu", month = "May", pages = "90--95", publisher = "IEEE Computer Society", url = "https://doi.org/10.1109/ISMVL.2016.10", } @inproceedings{ccjz15:ijcai, title = "Tractable Classes of Binary {C}{S}{P}s Defined by Excluded Topological Minors", author = "David A. Cohen and Martin C. Cooper and Peter Jeavons and Stanislav \v{Z}ivn\'y", year = "2015", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'15)", pages = "1945--1951", publisher = "AAAI Press", url = "http://ijcai.org/papers15/Papers/IJCAI15-276.pdf", } @inproceedings{ccjz15:aaai, title = "Binarisation via dualisation for valued constraints", author = "David A. Cohen and Martin C. Cooper and Peter Jeavons and Stanislav \v{Z}ivn\'y", year = "2015", booktitle = "Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth {AAAI} Conference on Artificial Intelligence", pages = "3731--3737", publisher = "AAAI Press", url = "http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/AAAI/AAAI15/paper/view/9328/9699", } @inproceedings{cp2015:groebnerabstract, title = "Representing and Solving Finite-Domain Constraint Problems using Systems of Polynomials (Extended Abstract)", author = "Chris Jefferson and Peter Jeavons and Martin J. Green and M.R.C. van Dongen", year = "2015", booktitle = "Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming - Proceedings of CP2015", url = "http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/peter.jeavons/CP2015:groebnerabstract.pdf", } @article{jkz14:survey, title = "The complexity of valued constraint satisfaction", author = "Peter Jeavons and Andrei Krokhin and Stanislav \v{Z}ivn\'y", year = "2014", journal = "Bulletin of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS)", note = "Errata can be found <a href="http://community.dur.ac.uk/andrei.krokhin/papers/BEATCScolumnerrata.txt">here</a>.", pages = "21-55", url = "http://eatcs.org/beatcs/index.php/beatcs/article/view/266/249", volume = "113", } @article{cccjz13:sicomp, title = "An algebraic theory of complexity for discrete optimisation", author = "David A. Cohen and Martin C. Cooper and P\'aid\'i Creed and Peter Jeavons and Stanislav \v{Z}ivn\'y", year = "2013", journal = "SIAM Journal on Computing", number = "5", pages = "1915-1939", url = "http://zivny.cz/publications/cccjz13sicomp-preprint.pdf", volume = "42", doi = "10.1137/130906398", } @inproceedings{CPliftingpaper, title = "Lifting Structural Tractability to CSP with Global Constraints", author = "Thorstensen, Evgenij", year = "2013", booktitle = "Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming", editor = "Schulte, Christian", isbn = "978-3-642-40626-3", pages = "661-677", publisher = "Springer", series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science", volume = "8124", doi = "10.1007/978-3-642-40627-0_49", } @inproceedings{DBLP:conf/cp/CohenJTZ13, title = "Tractable Combinations of Global Constraints", author = "David A. Cohen and Peter G. Jeavons and Evgenij Thorstensen and Stanislav \v{Z}ivn\'{y}", year = "2013", booktitle = "Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming - 19th International Conference, CP 2013, Uppsala, Sweden, September 16-20, 2013. Proceedings", editor = "Christian Schulte", pages = "230-246", publisher = "Springer", series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science", url = "http://zivny.cz/publications/cjtz13cp-preprint.pdf", volume = "8124", doi = "10.1007/978-3-642-40627-0_20", } @article{DBLP:journals/amai/JeffersonJGD13, title = "Representing and solving finite-domain constraint problems using systems of polynomials", author = "Christopher Jefferson and Peter Jeavons and Martin J. Green and Marc R. C. van Dongen", year = "2013", journal = "Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence", number = "3-4", pages = "359-382", url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10472-013-9365-7", volume = "67", doi = "10.1007/s10472-013-9365-7", } @article{DBLP:journals/jair/JeavonsP12, title = "Local Consistency and SAT-Solvers", author = "Peter Jeavons and Justyna Petke", year = "2012", journal = "Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR)", pages = "329-351", url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1613/jair.3531", volume = "43", doi = "10.1613/jair.3531", } @article{cz12:jair, title = "Tractable triangles and cross-free convexity in discrete optimisation", author = "Martin C. Cooper and Stanislav \v{Z}ivn\'y", year = "2012", journal = "Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research", pages = "455--490", url = "http://zivny.cz/publications/cz12jair-preprint.pdf", volume = "44", doi = "10.1613/jair.3598", } @techreport{tz12:arxiv, title = "The power of linear programming for valued CSPs", author = "Johan Thapper and Stanislav \v{Z}ivn\'y", year = "2012", note = "arXiv:1204.1079", url = "http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.1079", } @inbook{jz12, title = "Tractable valued constraints", author = "Peter G. Jeavons and Stanislav \v{Z}ivn\'y", year = "2012", booktitle = "Tractability: Practical Approaches to Hard Problems", editor = "Lucas Bordeaux and Youssef Hamadi and Pushmeet Kohli and Robert Mateescu", note = "This work is in copyright. The draft is for personal use only. No further distribution without permission.", publisher = "Cambridge University Press", url = "http://zivny.cz/publications/jz12cup-draft.pdf", } @inproceedings{kz12:soda, title = "The complexity of conservative valued CSPs", author = "Vladimir Kolmogorov and Stanislav \v{Z}ivn\'y", year = "2012", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 23rd ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA'12)", note = "Preprint: http://zivny.cz/publications/kz12soda-preprint.pdf", pages = "750--759", url = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2095177", } @techreport{RR-11-04, title = "The order encoding: from tractable CSP to tractable SAT", author = "Justyna Petke and Peter Jeavons", year = "2011", institution = "DCS, University of Oxford", number = "RR-11-04", pages = "19", } @article{cz11aij, title = "Hybrid tractability of valued constraint problems", author = "Martin C. Cooper and Stanislav \v{Z}ivn\'y", year = "2011", journal = "Artificial Intelligence", month = "June", number = "9-10", pages = "1555--1569", url = "http://zivny.cz/publications/cz11aij-preprint.pdf", volume = "175", doi = "10.1016/j.artint.2011.02.003", } @inproceedings{cz11:cp-minimal, title = "On minimal weighted clones", author = "P\'aid\'i Creed and Stanislav \v{Z}ivn\'y", year = "2011", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP'11)", pages = "210--224", publisher = "Springer", series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science", url = "http://zivny.cz/publications/cz11cp-mwc-preprint", volume = "6876", doi = "10.1007/978-3-642-23786-7_18", } @inproceedings{cz11:cp-convex, title = "Hierarchically nested convex VCSP", author = "Martin C. Cooper and Stanislav \v{Z}ivn\'y", year = "2011", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP'11)", pages = "187--194", publisher = "Springer", series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science", url = "http://zivny.cz/publications/cz11cp-convex.pdf", volume = "6876", doi = "10.1007/978-3-642-23786-7_16", } @inproceedings{cz11:cp-triangles, title = "Tractable triangles", author = "Martin C. Cooper and Stanislav \v{Z}ivn\'y", year = "2011", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP'11)", pages = "195--209", publisher = "Springer", series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science", url = "http://zivny.cz/publications/cz11cp-triangles-preprint", volume = "6876", doi = "10.1007/978-3-642-23786-7_17", } @inproceedings{ggcp11, title = "On Minimal Constraint Networks", author = "Georg Gottlob", year = "2011", address = "Perugia, Italy", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, CP 2011", } @inproceedings{ccjz11:mfcs, title = "An algebraic theory of complexity for valued constraints: Establishing a Galois connection", author = "David A. Cohen and P\'aid\'i Creed and Peter G. Jeavons and Stanislav \v{Z}ivn\'y", year = "2011", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 36th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS'11)", pages = "231--242", publisher = "Springer", series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science", url = "http://zivny.cz/publications/ccjz11mfcs-preprint.pdf", volume = "6907", doi = "10.1007/978-3-642-22993-0_23", } @inproceedings{PUPIJCAI2011, title = "Tackling the Partner Units Configuration Problem", author = "Markus Aschinger and Conrad Drescher and Georg Gottlob and Peter Jeavons and Evgenij Thorstensen", year = "2011", address = "Barcelona, Spain", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2011)", } @misc{SDSTACS11, title = "Structural Decomposition Methods, and What They are Good For", author = "Markus Aschinger and Conrad Drescher and Georg Gottlob and Peter Jeavons and Evgenij Thorstensen", year = "2011", address = "Dortmund, Germany", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 28th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2011)", note = "Invited Paper at STACS 2011", } @inproceedings{PUPCPAIOR2011, title = "Optimization Methods for the Partner Units Problem", author = "Markus Aschinger and Conrad Drescher and Gerhard Friedrich and Georg Gottlob and Peter Jeavons and Anna Ryabokon and Evgenij Thorstensen", year = "2011", address = "Berlin, Germany", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Integration of Artificial Intelligence and Operations Research Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems (CPAIOR 2011)", series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science", } @techreport{PUPTechRep10, title = "Tackling the Partner Units Configuration Problem", author = "Markus Aschinger and Conrad Drescher and Gerhard Friedrich and Georg Gottlob and Peter Jeavons and Anna Ryabokon and Evgenij Thorstensen", year = "2010", institution = "Computing Laboratory, University of Oxford", number = "CS-RR-10-28", } @article{DBLP:journals/ai/CooperJS10, title = "Generalizing constraint satisfaction on trees: Hybrid tractability and variable elimination", author = "Martin C. Cooper and Peter G. Jeavons and Andr{\'a}s Z. Salamon", year = "2010", journal = "Artif. Intell.", number = "9-10", pages = "570-584", volume = "174", doi = "10.1016/j.artint.2010.03.002", } @inproceedings{CZ10:cp, title = "A new hybrid tractable class of soft constraint problems", author = "Martin C. Cooper and Stanislav \v{Z}ivn\'y", year = "2010", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP'10)", series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science", url = "http://zivny.cz/publications/cz10cp-preprint.pdf", volume = "6308", doi = "10.1007/978-3-642-15396-9_15", } @techreport{3925, title = "An Algebraic Theory of Complexity for Valued Constraints: Establishing a Galois Connection", author = "David A. Cohen and Paidi Creed and Peter G. Jeavons and Stanislav Zivny", year = "2010", institution = "OUCL", month = "November", number = "RR-10-16", pages = "30", } @techreport{KZ10:arx-b, title = "Generalising tractable VCSPs defined by symmetric tournament pair multimorphisms", author = "Vladimir Kolmogorov and Stanislav \v{Z}ivn\'y", year = "2010", note = "arXiv:1008.3104", url = "http://arxiv.org/abs/1008.3104", } @techreport{CZ10:arx, title = "Hybrid tractability of soft constraint problems", author = "Martin C. Cooper and Stanislav \v{Z}ivn\'y", year = "2010", note = "arXiv:1008.4071", url = "http://arxiv.org/abs/1008.4071", } @techreport{KZ10:arx-a, title = "The complexity of conservative finite-valued CSPs", author = "Vladimir Kolmogorov and Stanislav \v{Z}ivn\'y", year = "2010", note = "arXiv:1008.1555", url = "http://arxiv.org/abs/1008.1555", } @inproceedings{3744, title = "Local consistency and SAT-solvers", author = "Peter Jeavons and Justyna Petke", year = "2010", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming - CP 2010", pages = "398-413", publisher = "Springer", series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science", volume = "6308", doi = "10.1007/978-3-642-15396-9_33", } @article{ZJ10constraints, title = "Classes of submodular constraints expressible by graph cuts", author = "Stanislav \v{Z}ivn\'y and Peter G. Jeavons", year = "2010", journal = "Constraints", number = "3", pages = "430-452", url = "http://zivny.cz/publications/zj10constraints-preprint.pdf", volume = "15", doi = "10.1007/s10601-009-9078-z", } @techreport{RR-09-07, title = "Tractable Benchmarks For Constraint Programming", author = "Justyna Petke and Peter Jeavons", year = "2009", institution = "OUCL", number = "RR-09-07", } @article{Z09:ipl, title = "Structural properties of oracle classes", author = "Stanislav \v{Z}ivn\'y", year = "2009", journal = "Information Processing Letters", number = "19", pages = "1131--1135", url = "http://zivny.cz/publications/z09ipl-preprint.pdf", volume = "109", doi = "10.1016/j.ipl.2009.07.009", } @inproceedings{DBLP:conf/tableaux/Jeavons09, title = "Presenting Constraints", author = "Peter Jeavons", year = "2009", booktitle = "TABLEAUX", crossref = "DBLP:conf/tableaux/2009", editor = "Martin Giese and Arild Waaler", isbn = "978-3-642-02715-4", journal = "Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods, 18th International Conference, TABLEAUX 2009, Oslo, Norway, July 6-10, 2009. Proceedings", pages = "1-15", publisher = "Springer", series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science", volume = "5607", doi = "10.1007/978-3-642-02716-1_1", } @article{DBLP:journals/iandc/BornerBCJK09, title = "The complexity of constraint satisfaction games and QCSP", author = "Ferdinand B{\"o}rner and Andrei A. Bulatov and Hubie Chen and Peter Jeavons and Andrei A. Krokhin", year = "2009", journal = "Inf. Comput.", number = "9", pages = "923-944", volume = "207", doi = "10.1016/j.ic.2009.05.003", } @article{Zivny09:dam, title = "The expressive power of binary submodular functions", author = "Stanislav \v{Z}ivn\'y and David A. Cohen and Peter G. Jeavons", year = "2009", journal = "Discrete Applied Mathematics", number = "15", pages = "3347--3358", url = "http://zivny.cz/publications/zcj09dam-preprint.pdf", volume = "157", doi = "10.1016/j.dam.2009.07.001", } @inproceedings{Zivny09:models, title = "The complexity of valued constraint models", author = "Stanislav \v{Z}ivn\'y and Peter G. Jeavons", year = "2009", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP'09)", number = "5732", series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science", url = "http://zivny.cz/publications/zj09cp-preprint.pdf", doi = "10.1007/978-3-642-04244-7_64", } @inproceedings{Zivny09:same, title = "Same-relation constraints", author = "Christopher Jefferson and Serdar Kadioglu and Karen E. Petrie and Meinolf Sellmann and Stanislav \v{Z}ivn\'y", year = "2009", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP'09)", number = "5732", series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science", url = "http://zivny.cz/publications/jkpsz09cp-preprint.pdf", doi = "10.1007/978-3-642-04244-7_38", } @article{zz09ipl, title = "A note on some collapse results of valued constraints", author = "Bruno Zanuttini and Stanislav \v{Z}ivn\'y", year = "2009", journal = "Information Processing Letters", number = "11", pages = "534--538", url = "http://zivny.cz/publications/zz09ipl-preprint.pdf", volume = "109", doi = "10.1016/j.ipl.2009.01.018", } @article{Green08:domain, title = "Domain permutation reduction for constraint satisfaction problems", author = "Martin J. Green and David A. Cohen", year = "2008", journal = "Artificial Intelligence", number = "8-9", pages = "1094-1118", volume = "172", doi = "10.1016/j.artint.2007.12.001", } @techreport{zcj08arx, title = "The Expressive Power of Binary Submodular Functions", author = "Stanislav \v{Z}ivn\'y and David A. Cohen and Peter G. Jeavons", year = "2008", note = "arXiv:0811.1885 [cs.DM]", url = "http://arxiv.org/abs/0811.1885", } @article{Zivny08:tcs, title = "The expressive power of valued constraints: Hierarchies and collapses", author = "David A. Cohen and Peter G. Jeavons and Stanislav \v{Z}ivn\'y", year = "2008", journal = "Theoretical Computer Science", number = "1", pages = "137--153", url = "http://zivny.cz/publications/cjz08tcs-preprint.pdf", volume = "409", doi = "10.1016/j.tcs.2008.08.036", } @techreport{Zivny08:sub-tr, title = "Which submodular functions are expressible using binary submodular functions?", author = "Stanislav \v{Z}ivn\'y and Peter G. Jeavons", year = "2008", address = "Oxford, UK", institution = "OUCL", month = "June", number = "RR-08-08", url = "http://zivny.cz/publications/zj08sub-tr.pdf", } @article{TournamentTCS, title = "Generalising submodularity and Horn clauses: tractable optimization problems defined by tournament pair multimorphisms", author = "David Cohen and Martin Cooper and Peter Jeavons", year = "2008", journal = "Theoretical Computer Science", number = "1-3", pages = "36-51", publisher = "Elsevier", volume = "401", doi = "doi:10.1016/j.tcs.2008.03.015", } @inproceedings{Salamon2008:perfect, title = "Perfect Constraints Are Tractable", author = "Andr{\'a}s Z. Salamon and Peter G. Jeavons", year = "2008", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, {CP} 2008, Sydney, Australia, 14--18 September", isbn = "978-3-540-85957-4", pages = "524-528", publisher = "Springer", series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science", url = "http://www.gaon.net/andras/academic/sj-cp2008.pdf", volume = "5202", doi = "10.1007/978-3-540-85958-1_35", } @inproceedings{Cooper2008:hybrid, title = "Hybrid tractable {CSP}s which generalize tree structure", author = "Martin C. Cooper and Peter G. Jeavons and Andr{\'a}s Z. Salamon", year = "2008", booktitle = "{ECAI} 2008, Proceedings of the 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, July 21--25, Patras, Greece", editor = "Malik Ghallab, Constantine D. Spyropoulos, Nikos Fakotakis, Nikos Avouris", isbn = "978-1-58603-891-5", issn = "0922-6389", note = "Best paper award.", pages = "530--534", publisher = "IOS Press", series = "Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications", url = "http://www.gaon.net/andras/academic/cjs-ecai2008.pdf", volume = "178", } @inproceedings{Zivny08:cp, title = "Classes of submodular constraints expressible by graph cuts", author = "Stanislav \v{Z}ivn\'y and Peter G. Jeavons", year = "2008", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP'08)", pages = "112-127", series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science", url = "http://zivny.cz/publications/zj08cp-preprint.pdf", volume = "5202", doi = "10.1007/978-3-540-85958-1_8", } @article{StructuralTractability, title = "A unified theory of structural tractability for constraint satisfaction problems", author = "David Cohen and Peter Jeavons and Marc Gyssens", year = "2008", journal = "Journal of Computer and System Sciences", note = "Earlier, uncorrected, version appears in Proceedings of IJCAI'05, pp. 72--77: \url{http://www.ijcai.org/papers/0521.pdf}", pages = "721-743", url = "http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/activities/constraints/publications/JCSSspreadcut.pdf", volume = "74", doi = "10.1016/j.jcss.2007.08.001", } @inproceedings{conf/ijcai/GottlobGM07, title = "Conditional Constraint Satisfaction: Logical Foundations and Complexity", author = "Georg Gottlob and Gianluigi Greco and Toni Mancini", year = "2007", booktitle = "{IJCAI 2007, Proceedings of the 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Hyderabad, India, January 6-12, 2007}", editor = "Manuela M. Veloso", pages = "88-93", url = "http://www.ijcai.org/papers07/Papers/IJCAI07-012.pdf", } @techreport{RR-07-07, title = "Representing and Solving Finite-Domain Constraint Problems Using Systems of Polynomials", author = "Chris Jefferson and Peter Jeavons and Martin J. Green and M.R.C. van Dongen", year = "2007", institution = "Oxford University Computing Laboratory", month = "October", number = "RR-07-07", } @techreport{Zivny07:expressiveTR, title = "The expressive power of valued constraints: hierarchies and collapses", author = "David A. Cohen and Peter G. Jeavons and Stanislav \v{Z}ivn\'y", year = "2007", address = "Oxford, UK", institution = "Computing Laboratory, University of Oxford", month = "April", number = "RR-07-03", url = "http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/publications/tr/RR-07-03.html", } @inproceedings{Zivny07:cp, title = "The expressive power of valued constraints: Hierarchies and collapses", author = "David A. Cohen and Peter G. Jeavons and Stanislav \v{Z}ivn\'y", year = "2007", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP'07)", pages = "798-805", series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science", url = "http://zivny.cz/publications/cjz07cp-preprint.pdf", volume = "4741", doi = "10.1007/978-3-540-74970-7_57", } @inproceedings{Cohen06:guarded, title = "Typed Guarded Decompositions for Constraint Satisfaction", author = "David A. Cohen and Martin J. Green", year = "2006", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP'06)", pages = "122-136", series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science", volume = "4204", doi = "10.1007/11889205_11", } @inproceedings{Houghton06:effect, title = "The Effect of Constraint Representation on Structural Tractability", author = "Chris Houghton and David A. Cohen and Martin J. Green", year = "2006", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP'06)", pages = "726-730", series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science", volume = "4204", doi = "10.1007/11889205_59", } @article{SymmetryDefinitions, title = "Symmetry definitions for constraint satisfaction problems", author = "David Cohen and Peter Jeavons and Christopher Jefferson and Karen Petrie and Barbara Smith", year = "2006", journal = "Constraints", note = "Received a Best Paper award.", pages = "115-137", url = "http://www.crt.umontreal.ca/~pesant/Constraints/Papers/CohenJJPS06.pdf", volume = "11", doi = "10.1007/s10601-006-8059-8", } @techreport{RR-06-06, title = "Generalising Submodularity and Horn Clauses: Tractable optimization problems defined by tournament pair multimorphisms", author = "Peter Jeavons and Martin C Cooper and David A Cohen", year = "2006", institution = "Oxford University Computing Laboratory", month = "December", number = "RR-06-06", } @inproceedings{AlgebraicCharacterisation, title = "An algebraic characterisation of complexity for valued constraints", author = "David Cohen and Martin Cooper and Peter Jeavons", year = "2006", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Contraint Programming (CP'06)", pages = "107-121", series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science", url = "http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/activities/constraints/publications/CP06expressibility.pdf", volume = "4204", doi = "10.1007/11889205_10", } @inbook{ComplexityConstraintLanguages, title = "The complexity of constraint languages", author = "David Cohen and Peter Jeavons", year = "2006", booktitle = "Handbook of Constraint Programming", chapter = "8", publisher = "Elsevier", url = "http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/activities/constraints/publications/ComplexityLanguages.pdf", } @article{ComplexityOfSoft, title = "The complexity of soft constraint satisfaction", author = "David Cohen and Martin Cooper and Peter Jeavons and Andrei Krokhin", year = "2006", journal = "Artificial Intelligence", pages = "983-1016", url = "http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/activities/constraints/publications/AIJ-3418.pdf", volume = "170", doi = "10.1016/j.artint.2006.04.002", } @inproceedings{Houghton05:solution, title = "Solution Equivalent Subquadrangle Reformulations of Constraint Satisfaction Problems", author = "Chris Houghton and David A. Cohen", year = "2005", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP'05)", pages = "851", series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science", volume = "3709", doi = "10.1007/11564751_89", } @article{SupermodularFunctions, title = "Supermodular functions and the complexity of MAX CSP", author = "David Cohen and Martin Cooper and Peter Jeavons and Andrei Krokhin", year = "2005", journal = "Discrete Applied Mathematics", note = "Earlier version appeared as Identifying efficiently solvable cases of Max CSP \url{http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/research/areas/constraints/publications/STACS04maxCSP.ps} in: Proceedings of STACS'04, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2996 (2004)", pages = "53-72", url = "http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/activities/constraints/publications/DAMsupermodular.pdf", volume = "149", doi = "10.1016/j.dam.2005.03.003", } @article{ClassifyingComplexity, title = "Classifying the complexity of constraints using finite algebras", author = "Andrei Bulatov and Peter Jeavons and Andrei Krokhin", year = "2005", journal = "SIAM Journal on Computing", number = "34", pages = "720-742", url = "http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/activities/constraints/publications/SIAMclassifying.pdf", doi = "10.1137/S0097539700376676", } @inproceedings{Bulatov04:graph, title = "A Graph of a Relational Structure and Constraint Satisfaction Problems", author = "Andrei A. Bulatov", year = "2004", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 19th IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS'04)", pages = "448-45", url = "http://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/lics/2004/2192/00/21920448abs.htm", } @inproceedings{Bulatov04:partition, title = "The complexity of partition functions", author = "Andrei A. Bulatov and Martin Grohe", year = "2004", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 31st International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP'04)", pages = "294-306", series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science", url = "http://springerlink.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=article{\&}issn=0302-9743{\&}volume=3142{\&}spage=294", volume = "3142", } @article{Cohen04:tractable, title = "Tractable Decision for a Constraint Language Implies Tractable Search", author = "David A. Cohen", year = "2004", journal = "Constraints", number = "3", pages = "219--229", url = "http://www.springerlink.com/content/v21231p3601625v4/", volume = "9", } @techreport{RR-04-08, title = "The Complexity of Constraint Satisfaction: An Algebraic Approach", author = "Andrei Krokhin and Andrei Bulatov and Peter Jeavons", year = "2004", institution = "Oxford University Computing Laboratory", month = "May", number = "RR-04-08", } @techreport{RR-04-01, title = "Supermodular Functions and the Complexity of MAX CSP", author = "David Cohen and Martin Cooper and Peter Jeavons and Andrei Krokhin", year = "2004", institution = "Oxford University Computing Laboratory", month = "January", number = "RR-04-01", } @inproceedings{CompleteCharacterization, title = "A complete characterization of complexity for Boolean constraint optimization problems", author = "David Cohen and Martin Cooper and Peter Jeavons", year = "2004", booktitle = "Proceedings of CP'04", number = "3258", pages = "212--226", series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science", url = "http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/activities/constraints/publications/CP04vsatdichotomy.ps", } @article{ImplementingTest, title = "Implementing a test for tractability", author = "Richard Gault and Peter Jeavons", year = "2004", journal = "Constraints", pages = "139--160", url = "http://www.kluweronline.com/article.asp?PIPS=5268458", volume = "9", } @article{MaximalTractable, title = "A maximal tractable class of soft constraints", author = "David Cohen and Martin Cooper and Peter Jeavons and Andrei Krokhin", year = "2004", journal = "Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research", note = "Earlier version appeared in: Proceedings of IJCAI'03, pp. 209-214: \url{http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/activities/constraints/publications/IJCAI03submodular.pdf}", number = "22", pages = "01/01/22", url = "http://www.jair.org/papers/paper1400.html", } @article{ConstraintSatisfaction, title = "Constraint satisfaction problems on intervals and lengths", author = "Andrei Krokhin and Peter Jeavons and Peter Jonsson", year = "2004", journal = "SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics", note = "Earlier version appears in Proceedings of STACS'02, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2285, (2002), pp. 443--454: \url{http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/bibs/2285/22850443.htm} Preprint version available from Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity, as Report TR01-077: \url{http://eccc.hpi-web.de/report/2001/077/}", number = "17", pages = "453--477", url = "http://epubs.siam.org/sam-bin/dbq/article/41020", } @inproceedings{Green03:tractability, title = "Tractability by Approximating Constraint Languages", author = "Martin J. Green and David A. Cohen", year = "2003", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP'03)", series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science", url = "http://www.springerlink.com/content/ewc4fxag1bupg9wh/", volume = "2833", } @inproceedings{Cohen03:new, title = "A New Classs of Binary CSPs for which Arc-Constistency Is a Decision Procedure", author = "David A. Cohen", year = "2003", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP'03)", pages = "807-811", series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science", url = "http://springerlink.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=article{\&}issn=0302-9743{\&}volume=2833{\&}spage=807", volume = "2833", } @inproceedings{Bulatov03:trichotomy, title = "Towards a Dichotomy Theorem for the Counting Constraint Satisfaction Problem", author = "Andrei A. Bulatov and Victor Dalmau", year = "2003", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 44th Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS'03)", url = "http://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/focs/2003/2040/00/20400562abs.htm", } @article{Learnability, title = "Learnability of quantified formulas", author = "Victor Dalmau and Peter Jeavons", year = "2003", journal = "Theoretical Computer Science", note = "Earlier version appeared in Proceedings of EuroCOLT 99, Nordkirchen, Germany, (1999), pp. 63-78 : \url{http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/bibs/1572/15720063.htm}", number = "306", pages = "485--511", url = "http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V1G-48WPV2S-1&_user=126524&_coverDate=09%2F05%2F2003&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_origin=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_rerunOrigin=scholar.google&_acct=C000010360&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=126524&md5=44eca8b4241d08eae4b7d80f4f4b4d39&searchtype=a", } @inproceedings{NewTractableClasses, title = "New Tractable Classes From Old", author = "David Cohen and Peter Jeavons and Richard Gault", year = "2003", journal = "Constraints", note = "Earlier version appears in Proceedings of CP2000, Lecture Notes In Computer Science, 1894, 2000, pp. 160--171 : \url{http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/bibs/1894/18940160.htm}", number = "8", pages = "263--282", doi = "10.1023/A:1025623111033", } @inproceedings{ComplexityConstraintSatisfaction, title = "Structural Theory of Automata, Semigroups, and Universal Algebra", author = "Andrei Krokhin and Andrei Bulatov and Peter Jeavons", year = "2003", address = "University of Montreal", booktitle = "Proceedings of SMS-NATO ASI", note = "Earlier version available as an OUCL Research Report: \url{http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/publications/tr/rr-04-08.html}", pages = "181-213", url = "http://www.springer.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,4-10043-22-52121384-0,00.html", } @inproceedings{Bulatov03:conservative, title = "Tractable conservative Constraint Satisfaction Problems", author = "Andrei A. Bulatov", year = "2003", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 18th IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS'03)", url = "http://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/lics/2003/1884/00/18840321abs.htm", } @inproceedings{Bulatov03:ijcai, title = "Amalgams of Constraint Satisfaction Problem", author = "Andrei A. Bulatov and Evgeny S. Skvortsov", year = "2003", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 18th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'03)", pages = "197-202", } @inproceedings{SoftConstraints, title = "Soft constraints: complexity and multimorphsims", author = "David Cohen and Martin Cooper and Peter Jeavons and Andrei Krokhin", year = "2003", booktitle = "Proceedings of CP'03", number = "2833", pages = "244--258", series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science", url = "http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/activities/constraints/publications/CP03multimorphisms.pdf", } @inproceedings{QuantifiedConstraints, title = "Quantified constraints: algorithms and complexity", author = "Ferdinand B{\"o}rner and Andrei Bulatov and Peter Jeavons and Andrei Krokhin", year = "2003", booktitle = "Proceedings of CSL'03", note = "Longer version available as an OUCL Research Report: \url{http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/publications/tr/rr-02-11.html}", number = "2803", pages = "58--70", series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science", url = "http://springerlink.metapress.com/content/2gmm51wv6xjx1u3e/fulltext.pdf", doi = "10.1007/b13224", } @inproceedings{FunctionsOf, title = "Functions of multiple-valued logic and the complexity of constraint satisfaction: A short survey", author = "Andrei Krokhin and Andrei Bulatov and Peter Jeavons", year = "2003", booktitle = "Proceedings of 33rd IEEE International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic (ISMVL'03)", pages = "343--351", url = "http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/activities/constraints/publications/ISMVL03survey.ps", } @inproceedings{AlgebraicApproach, title = "An algebraic approach to multi-sorted constraints", author = "Andrei Bulatov and Peter Jeavons", year = "2003", booktitle = "Proceedings of CP'03", note = "Earlier version available as an OUCL Research Report : \url{http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/publications/tr/rr-01-18.html}", number = "2833", pages = "183--198", series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science", url = "http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/activities/constraints/publications/CP03multisorted.pdf", } @article{ReasoningTemporalRelations, title = "Reasoning about temporal relations : the tractable subalgebras of Allen's interval algebra", author = "Andrei Krokhin and Peter Jeavons and Peter Jonsson", year = "2003", journal = "Journal of the ACM", note = "Earlier version available as an OUCL Research Report : \url{http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/publications/tr/rr-01-12.html}", number = "50", pages = "591--640", doi = "10.1145/876638.876639", } @inproceedings{FiniteSemigroups, title = "Finite semigroups imposing tractable constraints", author = "Andrei Bulatov and Peter Jeavons and Mikhail Volkov", year = "2002", booktitle = "Proceedings of the School on Algorithmic Aspects of the Theory of Semigroups and its Applications, Coimbra, Portugal, 2001", pages = "313--329", publisher = "World Scientific, Singapore", } @inproceedings{Bulatov02:3-element, title = "A Dichotomy Theorem for Constraints on a Three-Element Set", author = "Andrei A. Bulatov", year = "2002", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 43rd Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS'02)", url = "http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/SFCS.2002.1181990", } @inproceedings{ComplexityMaximal, title = "The complexity of maximal constraint languages", author = "Andrei Bulatov and Andrei Krokhin and Peter Jeavons", year = "2001", booktitle = "Proceedings of STOC'01, Crete, Greece", note = "Earlier version available as an OUCL Research Report : \url{http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/publications/tr/rr-01-03.html}", pages = "667--674", doi = "10.1145/380752.380868", } @techreport{AlgebraicStructures, title = "Algebraic structures in combinatorial problems", author = "Andrei Bulatov and Peter Jeavons", year = "2001", institution = "Technische Universitat Dresden", number = "MATH-AL-4-2001", pages = "32", url = "http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~abulatov/papers/varieties.ps", } @inproceedings{CompleteClassification, title = "A complete classification of complexity in Allen's algebra in the presence of a non-trivial basic relation", author = "Andrei Krokhin and Peter Jeavons and Peter Jonsson", year = "2001", booktitle = "Proceedings of IJCAI'01, Seattle, USA", note = "Longer version available as an OUCL Research Report : \url{http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/publications/tr/rr-01-02.html}", pages = "83--88", } @article{BuildingTractable, title = "Building tractable disjunctive constraints", author = "David Cohen and Peter Jeavons and Peter Jonsson and Manolis Koubarakis", year = "2000", journal = "Journal of the ACM", number = "47", pages = "826--853", url = "http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=355483.355485", doi = "10.1145/355483.355485", } @techreport{TractableConstraints, title = "Tractable constraints closed under a binary operation", author = "Andrei Bulatov and Peter Jeavons", year = "2000", institution = "Oxford University Computing Laboratory", number = "PRG-TR-12-00", pages = "27", url = "http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/techreports/oucl/TR-12-00.ps.gz", } @inproceedings{ConstraintSatisfactionProblems, title = "Constraint satisfaction problems and finite algebras", author = "Andrei Bulatov and Andrei Krokhin, and Peter Jeavons", year = "2000", booktitle = "Proceedings of ICALP'00", note = "Longer version available as an OUCL Technical Report : \url{http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/publications/tr/tr-4-99.html}", number = "1853", pages = "272--282", series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science", url = "http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/bibs/1853/18530272.htm", doi = "10.1007/3-540-45022-X_24", } @inproceedings{HowToDetermine, title = "How to determine the expressive power of constraints", author = "P.G.Jeavons and D.A.Cohen and M.Gyssens", year = "1999", booktitle = "Constraints", number = "4", pages = "113--131", url = "ftp://ftp.cs.rhul.ac.uk/pub/constraints/how_to_determine.ps", } @inproceedings{ConstraintTractability, title = "Constraint Tractability Theory And Its Application to the Product Development Process for a Constraint-Based Scheduler", author = "Lisa Purvis and Peter Jeavons", year = "1999", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on The Practical Application of Constraint Technologies and Logic Programming", note = "This paper was awarded First Prize in the Constraints Technologies area of PACLP'99", pages = "63--79", url = "http://cse.unl.edu/~choueiry/F03-421-821/Documents/LP-PACLP.doc", } @article{OnTheAlgebraicStructure, title = "On The Algebraic Structure Of Combinatorial Problems", author = "P.G.Jeavons", year = "1998", journal = "Theoretical Computer Science", number = "200", pages = "185--204", url = "ftp://ftp.cs.rhul.ac.uk/pub/constraints/algebraic.ps", } @article{ConstraintsConsistencyClosure, title = "Constraints, Consistency and Closure", author = "P.G.Jeavons and D.A.Cohen and M.Cooper", year = "1998", journal = "Artificial Intelligence", number = "101 (1-2)", pages = "251--265", url = "ftp://ftp.cs.rhul.ac.uk/pub/constraints/conconclo.ps", } @article{ConstraintsAndUniversalAlgebra, title = "Constraints and Universal Algebra", author = "P.G.Jeavons and D.A.Cohen and J.K.Pearson", year = "1998", journal = "Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence", number = "24", pages = "51--67", url = "ftp://ftp.cs.rhul.ac.uk/pub/constraints/con_and_universal.ps", } @inproceedings{WhyHigher, title = "Why higher order constraints are necessary to model frequency assignment problems", author = "P.G.Jeavons and N.W.Dunkin and J.E.Bater", year = "1998", booktitle = "ECAI'98 Workshop on Non-binary constraints", url = "ftp://ftp.cs.rhul.ac.uk/pub/constraints/ecaiversion.ps", } @techreport{TowardsHighOrder, title = "Towards High Order Constraint Representations for the Frequency Assignment Problem", author = "N.W.Dunkin and J.E.Bater and P.G.Jeavons and D.A.Cohen", year = "1998", institution = "Royal Holloway, University of London", month = "June", number = "CSD-TR-98-05", url = "ftp://ftp.cs.rhul.ac.uk/pub/constraints/CSD-TR-98-05.ps", } @inproceedings{ConstructingConstraints, title = "Constructing constraints", author = "P.G.Jeavons", year = "1998", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP98)", pages = "2-16", series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science", url = "ftp://ftp.cs.rhul.ac.uk/pub/constraints/constructing.ps", volume = "1520", doi = "10.1007/3-540-49481-2_2", } @techreport{AreThere, title = "Are there optimal reuse distance constraints for FAPs with random Tx placements?", author = "J.E.Bater and P.G.Jeavons and D.A.Cohen", year = "1998", institution = "Royal Holloway, University of London", month = "February", number = "CSD-TR-98-01", url = "ftp://ftp.cs.rhul.ac.uk/pub/constraints/CSD-TR-98-01.ps", } @article{ClosreProperties, title = "Closure Properties of Constraints", author = "P.G.Jeavons and D.A.Cohen and M.Gyssens", year = "1997", journal = "Journal of the ACM", number = "44", pages = "527--548", url = "ftp://ftp.cs.rhul.ac.uk/pub/constraints/closure.ps", } @inproceedings{TractableDisjunctive, title = "Tractable Disjunctive Constraints", author = "D.A.Cohen and P.G.Jeavons and M.Kourabarakis", year = "1997", booktitle = "Proceedings 3rd International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP97)", number = "1330", pages = "478--490", series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science", url = "ftp://ftp.cs.rhul.ac.uk/pub/constraints/tractable.ps", volume = "1330", doi = "10.1007/BFb0017461", } @inproceedings{Expressiveness, title = "Expressiveness of Binary Constraints for the Frequency Assignment Problem", author = "N.W.Dunkin and P.G.Jeavons", year = "1997", booktitle = "DIAL-M Workshop, 3rd Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MOBICOM'97)", url = "ftp://ftp.cs.rhul.ac.uk/pub/constraints/dunk97.ps", } @techreport{SurveyTractable, title = "A Survey of Tractable Constraint Satisfaction Problems", author = "J.K.Pearson and P.G.Jeavons", year = "1997", institution = "Royal Holloway, University of London", month = "July", number = "CSD-TR-97-15", url = "ftp://ftp.cs.rhul.ac.uk/pub/constraints/survey.ps", } @inproceedings{DerivationOfConstraint, title = "Derivation of Constraints and Database Relations", author = "D.A.Cohen and M.Gyssens and P.G.Jeavons", year = "1996", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP96)", pages = "134--148", series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science", url = "ftp://ftp.cs.rhul.ac.uk/pub/constraints/derivation.ps", volume = "1118", doi = "10.1007/3-540-61551-2_71", } @inproceedings{TestForTractability, title = "A Test for Tractability", author = "P.G.Jeavons and D.A.Cohen and M.Gyssens", year = "1996", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP96)", pages = "267-281", series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science", url = "ftp://ftp.cs.rhul.ac.uk/pub/constraints/tractability.ps", volume = "1118", doi = "10.1007/3-540-61551-2_80", } @article{TractableConstraintsOrdered, title = "Tractable Constraints on Ordered Domains", author = "P.G.Jeavons and M.C.Cooper", year = "1995", journal = "Artificial Intelligence", number = "79(2)", pages = "327--339", url = "ftp://ftp.cs.rhul.ac.uk/pub/constraints/maxclos.ps", } @inproceedings{UnifyingFramework, title = "A Unifying Framework for Tractable Constraints", author = "P.G.Jeavons and D.A.Cohen and M.Gyssens", year = "1995", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP95)", pages = "276-291", series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science", url = "ftp://ftp.cs.rhul.ac.uk/pub/constraints/unifying.ps", volume = "976", doi = "10.1007/3-540-60299-2_17", } @inproceedings{SubstitutionOperation, title = "A Substitution Operation for Constraints", author = "P.G.Jeavons and D.A.Cohen and M.C.Cooper", year = "1995", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP95)", pages = "161-177", series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science", url = "ftp://ftp.cs.rhul.ac.uk/pub/constraints/substitution.ps", volume = "874", doi = "10.1007/3-540-58601-6_85", } @article{RecoveringRelation, title = "Recovering a Relation from a Decomposition using Constraint Satisfaction Techniques", author = "P.G.Jeavons", year = "1994", journal = "Information Sciences", number = "78", pages = "229--256", url = "ftp://ftp.cs.rhul.ac.uk/pub/constraints/recovering.ps", } @article{StructuralDecomposition, title = "A Structural Decomposition for Hypergraphs", author = "P.G.Jeavons and D.A.Cohen and M.Gyssens", year = "1994", journal = "Contemporary Mathematics", number = "178", pages = "161--177", url = "ftp://ftp.cs.rhul.ac.uk/pub/constraints/contmath.ps", } @article{DecomposingConstraint, title = "Decomposing Constraint Satisfaction Problems Using Database Techniques", author = "M.Gyssens and P.G.Jeavons and D.A.Cohen", year = "1994", journal = "Artificial Intelligence", number = "66(1)", pages = "57-89", url = "ftp://ftp.cs.rhul.ac.uk/pub/constraints/decomposing.ps", } @article{CharacterisingTractable, title = "Characterising Tractable Constraints", author = "M.C.Cooper and D.A.Cohen and P.G.Jeavons", year = "1994", journal = "Artificial Intelligence", number = "65(2)", pages = "347--361", url = "ftp://ftp.cs.rhul.ac.uk/pub/constraints/characterising.ps", }