This article presents a basic scheme for deriving systematically a filtering algorithm from the graph properties based representation of global constraints. This scheme is based on the bounds of the graph parameters used in the description of a global constraint. The article provides bounds for the most common used graph parameters.
Mots-clés : global constraint, graph constraint, filtering, bound
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Beldiceanu, Nicolas; Petit, Thierry; Rochart, Guillaume. Bounds of graph parameters for global constraints. RAIRO - Operations Research - Recherche Opérationnelle, Tome 40 (2006) no. 4, pp. 327-353. doi : 10.1051/ro:2007001. http://archive.numdam.org/articles/10.1051/ro:2007001/
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