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GIFT: a Generic Interface for Reusing Filtering Algorithms.
Author: Ka Boon Ng and Chiu Wo Choi and Martin Henz and Tobias MüllerEditor: Nicolas Beldiceanu and Warwick Harvey and Martin Henz and Fran\cc
Many different constraint programming (CP) systems exist today. For
each CP system, there are many different filtering algorithms.
Researchers and developers usually choose a CP system of their choice
to implement their filtering algorithms. To use these filtering
algorithms on another system, we have to port the code over. This
situation is clearly not desirable. In this paper, we propose a
generic C++ interface for writing filtering algorithms called GIFT
(Generic Interface for FilTers). By providing the generic interface
on different CP systems, we can reuse any filtering algorithms
easily. A case study on reusing scheduling filtering algorithms
between Mozart and Figaro further highlights the feasibility of this
approach.
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