require extending the basic constraint satisfaction framework. In this paper we use the notion
of conditional constraint satisfaction (Cond-CSP) as defined by [Mittal and Falkenhainer,
1990] to provide a framework in which these problems can be formulated and solved. It has
been shown in [Soininen et al., 1999] that the decision problem for CondCSP is NP-
complete similar to standard CSPs. Solving standard CSPs applies various degrees of local …