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Consistency checking within local search applied to the frequency assignmentwith polarization problem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2004

Michel Vasquez
Affiliation:
Centre LGI2P, École des mines d'Alès, site EERIE, 30035 Nîmes Cedex 1, France; vasquez@site-eerie.ema.fr., dupont@site-eerie.ema.fr., habet@site-eerie.ema.fr.
Audrey Dupont
Affiliation:
Centre LGI2P, École des mines d'Alès, site EERIE, 30035 Nîmes Cedex 1, France; vasquez@site-eerie.ema.fr., dupont@site-eerie.ema.fr., habet@site-eerie.ema.fr.
Djamal Habet
Affiliation:
Centre LGI2P, École des mines d'Alès, site EERIE, 30035 Nîmes Cedex 1, France; vasquez@site-eerie.ema.fr., dupont@site-eerie.ema.fr., habet@site-eerie.ema.fr.
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Abstract

We present a hybrid approach for the FrequencyAssignment Problem with Polarization. This problem, viewed asMax-CSP, is treated as a sequence of decision problems, CSPlike. The proposed approach combines the Arc-Consistencytechniques with a performed Tabu Search heuristic. The resultingalgorithm gives some high quality solutions and has proved itsrobustness on instances with approximately a thousand variablesand nearly ten thousand constraints.

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© EDP Sciences, 2003

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