one of the problems that sometimes occur in gas allocation optimization is instability phenomenon. this phenomenon reduces the oil production and damages downhole and surface facilities. different works have studied the stability and suggested some solutions to override it, but most of them (such as making the well intelligent) are very expensive and thus they are not applicable to many cases. ...

We propose four new structural decomposition techniques for Constraint Satisfaction Problems. We compare these four techniques both theoretically and experimentally with hinge decomposition and hypertree decomposition. Our experiments show that one of our techniques offers the best trade-off between the computational cost of the decomposition and the width of the resulting decomposition tree.

In this paper we derive a generic form of structural decomposition for the constraint satisfaction problem, which we call a guarded decomposition. We show that many existing decomposition methods can be characterised in terms of finding guarded decompositions satisfying certain specified additional conditions. Using the guarded decomposition framework we are also able to define a new form of de...

The literature provides several structural decomposition methods for identifying tractable subclasses of the constraint satisfaction problem. Generalized hypertree decomposition is the most general of such decomposition methods. Although the relationship to other structural decomposition methods has been thoroughly investigated, only little research has been done on efficient algorithms for com...

In this paper we introduce a generic form of structural decomposition for the constraint satisfaction problem, which we call a guarded decomposition. We show that many existing decomposition methods can be characterized in terms of finding guarded decompositions satisfying certain specified additional conditions. Using the guarded decomposition framework we are also able to define a new form of...