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The Constraint Satisfaction Problem: Complexity and Approximability

@inproceedings{Fraser2017TheCS,
  title={The Constraint Satisfaction Problem: Complexity and Approximability},
  author={A. S. Fraser and Andrei A. Krokhin},
  booktitle={The Constraint Satisfaction Problem},
  year={2017}
}
Constraint satisfaction has always played a central role in computational complexity theory; appropriate versions of CSPs are classical complete problems for most standard complexity classes. CSPs constitute a very rich and yet sufficiently manageable class of problems to give a good perspective on general computational phenomena. For instance, they help to understand which mathematical properties make a computational problem tractable (in a wide sense, e.g., polynomial-time solvable, non… 
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