5 CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION PROBLEMS
5CONSTRAINTSATISFACTIONPROBLEMSInwhich weseehowtreatingstatesasmore thanjustlittleblack boxesleadsto theinventionofa range ofpowerfulnew search methodsanda deeperunderstandingofproblemstructure and4 exploredtheideathatproblemscanbesolvedby searchinginaspaceofstates. Thesestatescanbeevaluatedbydomain-specif icheuristicsandtestedtoseewhetherthey ,however,eachstateis is representedbyanarbi-BLACKBOXtrarydatastr ucturethatcanbeaccessedonlybytheproblem- specificroutines thesuccessorfunction,heuristicfunction, , whosestatesandgoaltestconformtoa standard,structured,andverysimplereprese ntation( ).Searchal-REPRESENTATIONgorithmscanbede finedthattake advantageofthestructureofstatesandusegen eral-purposeratherthanproblem-specifiche uristicsto enablethesolutionoflargeproblems( ).Perhapsmostimportantly, thestandardrepresentationofthegoaltestre vealsthestruc-tureoftheproblemitself( ).Thisleadstomethodsforproblemdecomposit ionandtoanunderstandingoftheintimateconn ectionbetweenthestructureofa ,aconstraintsatisfactionproblem(orCSP)is definedbya setofvari-CONSTRAINTSATISFACTIONPROBLEMa bles,X1; X2; : : : ; Xn, anda setofconstraints,C1; C2; : : : ; Cm.
rather than problem-specific heuristics to enable the solution of large problems (Sections 5.2– 5.3). Perhaps most importantly, the standard representation of the goal test reveals the struc-ture of the problem itself (Section 5.4). This leads to methods for problem decomposition
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