Piecewise Linear Valued Constraint Satisfaction Problems with Fixed Number of Variables

03/02/2020
by   Manuel Bodirsky, et al.
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Many combinatorial optimisation problems can be modelled as valued constraint satisfaction problems. In this paper, we present a polynomial-time algorithm solving the valued constraint satisfaction problem for a fixed number of variables and for piecewise linear cost functions. Our algorithm finds the infimum of a piecewise linear function and decides whether it is a proper minimum.

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