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
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