Neighborhood-Based Variable Ordering Heuristics for the Constraint Satisfaction Problem
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One of the key factors in the eeciency of backtracking algorithms is the rule they use to decide on which variable to branch next (namely, the variable ordering heuristics). In this paper, we give a formulation of dynamic variable ordering heuristics that takes into account the properties of the neighborhood of the variable.
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