A General Framework for Reordering Agents Asynchronously in Distributed CSP
Publication Type:
Refereed Conference Meeting Proceeding
Abstract:
Reordering agents during search is an essential component of the efficiency of solving a distributed constraint satisfaction problem. Termination values have been recently proposed as a way to simulate the min-domain dynamic variable ordering heuristic. The use of termination values allows the greatest flexibility in reordering agents dynamically while keeping polynomial space. In this paper, we propose a general framework based on termination values for reordering agents asynchronously. The termination values are generalized to represent various heuristics other than min-domain. Our general framework is sound, complete, terminates and has a polynomial space complexity. We implemented several variable ordering heuristics that are well-known in centralized CSPs but could not until now be applied to the distributed setting. Our empirical study shows the significance of our framework compared to state-of-the-art asynchronous dynamic ordering algorithms for solving distributed CSP.
Conference Name:
CP2015
Proceedings:
Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP'2015)
Digital Object Identifer (DOI):
10.1007/978-3-319-23219-5_33
Publication Date:
31/08/2015
Pages:
463-479
Conference Location:
Ireland
Research Group:
Institution:
National University of Ireland, Cork (UCC)
Open access repository:
No
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