Cork Constraint Computation Centre, University College Cork

Tom Carchrae

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BSc Computer Sc. (UCC)

As an undergraduate I was a member of the UCC Constraint Processing Group. I then worked for a scheduling software company applying AI techniques to industrial scheduling problems. I am studying for my PhD under Prof. Beck and Prof. Freuder. I have looked at more efficient methods of storing higher consistency knowledge to ensure backtrack free search. My thesis is on reducing the required expertise to apply optimisation tools. My research interests include soft constraints and optimisation, local search, higher order consistency processing, and the art of modelling real world problems.

Latest Publications in the 4C Database:

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Beck, J.C., Carchrae, T., Freuder, E.C. & Ringwelski, G.: A Space-Efficient Backtrack-free Representation for Constraint Satisfaction Problems. International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, vol. 17, num 4, 2008-01-01, pp 703-730.	BibTeX	PDF
Tom Carchrae and J. Christopher Beck: Learning Abstract Scheduling Models in Abstraction, Reformulation and Approximation, 2005-01-01.	BibTeX	PDF
Carchrae, T. & Beck, J.C.: Cost-based Large Neighborhood Search in Workshop on the Combination of Metaheuristic and Local Search with Constraint Programming Techniques, 2005-01-01.	BibTeX	PDF

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Email: t.carchrae "at" 4c.ucc.ie

Phone: +353 21 4255415

Fax: +353 21 4255424