[gecode-users] Activity-based search and nondeterministic behaviour

Andre Augusto Cire andrecire at cmu.edu
Fri Feb 14 19:04:48 CET 2014


Hi Christian,

Thanks a lot for your answer. Just to clear out any confusion: this means
that, in the latest version (4.2.1), all search types (including AFC) are
deterministic as long as there are no non-deterministic propagators, right?

Cheers,
Andre


On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Christian Schulte <cschulte at kth.se> wrote:

> Dear Andre,
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> Now it is not deterministic when non-detrministic propagators are around.
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> Moreover, changing the recomputation distance will also (slightly) change
> the activity information recorded.
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> Cheers
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> Christian
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> Christian Schulte, www.ict.kth.se/~cschulte/
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> *From:* users-bounces at gecode.org [mailto:users-bounces at gecode.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Andre Augusto Cire
> *Sent:* Monday, February 10, 2014 6:43 PM
> *To:* users at gecode.org
> *Subject:* [gecode-users] Activity-based search and nondeterministic
> behaviour
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> Dear all,
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> I wonder if you could kindly help me with a very quick question. From a
> previous forum post and the manual, we know that nonmonotonic propagators
> and AFC-based search may result in a nondeterministic behaviour (post here:
> https://www.mail-archive.com/users@gecode.org/msg00916.html).
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> Just to confirm: is activity-based search deterministic?
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> Thank you very much,
>
> Andre
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