The constraint satisfaction problem

This web page contains material for the workshop The constraint satisfaction problem.

Contributions from the workshop participants are available in dvi, postscript or pdf.

Some useful resources

A problem list.

Talks

Slides from the talk of Benoit Larose

Slides from the talk of Phokion Kolaitis

Papers

A tutorial Constraint Satisfaction, Complexity, and Logic by Kolaitis, given at the Logic Colloquium 2005.

A book chapter A Logical Approach to Constraint Satisfaction, by Kolaitis and Vardi, from the book Finite Model Theory and its Applications

A survey paper A Rendezvous of Logic, Complexity, and Algebra by Chen.

Some more papers

Universal algebra and hardness results for constraint satisfaction problems, by Larose and Tesson

A characterization of first-order constraint satisfaction problems, by Larose, Loten, and Tardif

Dualities for constraint satisfaction problems, by Bulatov, Krokhin, and Larose

Recent results on the algebraic approach to the CSP, by Bulatov and Valeriote

Tractability and learnability arising from algebras with few subpowers, by Idzak, Markovic, McKenzie, Vareriote, and Willard

On tractability and congruence distributivity, by Kiss and Valeriote

CD(4) has bounded width, by Carvalho, Dalmau, Markovic, and Maroti

Congruence modularity implies cyclic terms for finite algebras, by Barto, Kozik, Maroti, McKenzie, and Niven

Previous conferences

International Workshop on Mathematics of Constraint Satisfaction: Algebra, Logic, and Graph Theory, University of Oxford, March 2006

Dagstuhl Seminar on Complexity of Constraints, Schloss Dagstuhl International Conference and Research Center for Computer Science, October 2006

Workshop on Universal Algebra and the Constraint Satisfaction Problem, Vanderbilt University, June 2007

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A list of registered participants is available.




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