• DocumentCode
    226699
  • Title

    If we take into account that constraints are soft, then processing constraints becomes algorithmically solvable

  • Author

    Brefort, Quentin ; Jaulin, Luc ; Ceberio, Martine ; Kreinovich, Vladik

  • Author_Institution
    LabSTICC, ENSTA-Bretagne, Brest, France
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    9-12 Dec. 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    10
  • Abstract
    Constraints are ubiquitous in science and engineering. Constraints describe the available information about the state of the system, constraints describe possible relation between current and future states of the system, constraints describe which future states we would like to obtain. To solve problems from engineering and science, it is therefore necessary to process constraints. We show that if we treat constraints as hard (crisp), with all the threshold values exactly known, then in the general case, all the corresponding computational problems become algorithmically unsolvable. However, these problems become algorithmically solvable if we take into account that in reality, constraints are soft: we do not know the exact values of the corresponding thresholds, we do not know the exact dependence between the present and future states, etc.
  • Keywords
    computability; constraint handling; constraint satisfaction problems; set theory; CONSTRAINT PROCESSING; ubiquitous; Accuracy; Approximation algorithms; Instruments; Measurement errors; Meteorology; Pollution measurement; Temperature measurement;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computational Intelligence for Engineering Solutions (CIES), 2014 IEEE Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Orlando, FL
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CIES.2014.7011823
  • Filename
    7011823