[HTML][HTML] Optimization with constraint learning: A framework and survey

AO Fajemisin, D Maragno, D den Hertog - European Journal of Operational …, 2024 - Elsevier
Many real-life optimization problems frequently contain one or more constraints or objectives
for which there are no explicit formulae. If however data on feasible and/or infeasible states …

The ASSISTANT project: AI for high level decisions in manufacturing

G Castañé, A Dolgui, N Kousi, B Meyers… - … Journal of Production …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This paper outlines the main idea and approach of the H2020 ASSISTANT (LeArning and
robuSt deciSIon SupporT systems for agile mANufacTuring environments) project …

Guided bottom-up interactive constraint acquisition

D Tsouros, S Berden, T Guns - arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.06126, 2023 - arxiv.org
Constraint Acquisition (CA) systems can be used to assist in the modeling of constraint
satisfaction problems. In (inter) active CA, the system is given a set of candidate constraints …

Learning constraints through partial queries

C Bessiere, C Carbonnel, A Dries, E Hebrard… - Artificial Intelligence, 2023 - Elsevier
Learning constraint networks is known to require a number of membership queries
exponential in the number of variables. In this paper, we learn constraint networks by asking …

[HTML][HTML] A statistical approach to learning constraints

S Prestwich, N Wilson - International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 2024 - Elsevier
A constraint-based model represents knowledge about a domain by a set of constraints,
which must be satisfied by solutions in that domain. These models may be used for …

Learning constraint networks over unknown constraint languages

C Bessiere, C Carbonnel… - IJCAI 2023-32nd …, 2023 - hal.umontpellier.fr
Constraint acquisition is the task of learning a constraint network from examples of solutions
and non-solutions. Existing constraint acquisition systems typically require advance …

Automating personnel rostering by learning constraints using tensors

M Kumar, S Teso, P De Causmaecker… - 2019 IEEE 31st …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many problems in operations research require that constraints be specified in the model.
Determining right constraints is a hard and laborsome task. We propose an approach to …

Acquiring maps of interrelated conjectures on sharp bounds

N Beldiceanu, J Cheukam-Ngouonou… - CP 2022-28th …, 2022 - hal.science
To automate the discovery of conjectures on combinatorial objects, we introduce the concept
of a map of sharp bounds on characteristics of combinatorial objects, that provides a set of …

An implicit learning approach for solving the nurse scheduling problem

A Ben Said, EA Mohammed, M Mouhoub - Neural Information Processing …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract The Nurse Scheduling Problem (NSP) is one of the challenging combinatorial
optimization problems encountered in the healthcare sector. Solving the NSP consists in …

Machine Learning and Constraint Programming for Efficient Healthcare Scheduling

AB Said, M Mouhoub - arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.07547, 2024 - arxiv.org
Solving combinatorial optimization problems involve satisfying a set of hard constraints
while optimizing some objectives. In this context, exact or approximate methods can be …