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Approximation of Constraint Satisfaction via local search

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Selim G. Akl Frank Dehne Jörg-Rüdiger Sack Nicola Santoro

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Lau, H.C. (1995). Approximation of Constraint Satisfaction via local search. In: Akl, S.G., Dehne, F., Sack, JR., Santoro, N. (eds) Algorithms and Data Structures. WADS 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 955. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60220-8_85

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