Revisiting decomposition analysis of geometric constraint graphs

Geometric problems defined by constraints can be represented by geometric constraint graphs whose nodes are geometric elements and whose arcs represent geometric constraints. Reduction and decomposition are techniques commonly used to analyze geometric constraint graphs in geometric constraint solvi...

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Autores: Joan Arinyo, Robert|||0000-0002-1896-2940, Soto Riera, Antoni|||0000-0002-6136-1964, Vila Marta, Sebastià|||0000-0001-9069-1340, Vilaplana Pastó, Josep|||0000-0002-1820-3063
Tipo de documento: relatório científico
Data de publicação:2002
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositório:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglês
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/97561
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/97561
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Decomposition analysis
Geometric constraint
Constraint solving
Graph-based constraint solving
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Resumo:Geometric problems defined by constraints can be represented by geometric constraint graphs whose nodes are geometric elements and whose arcs represent geometric constraints. Reduction and decomposition are techniques commonly used to analyze geometric constraint graphs in geometric constraint solving. In this paper we first introduce the concept of {em deficit} of a constraint graph. Then we give a new formalization of the decomposition algorithm due to Owen. This new formalization is based on preserving the deficit rather than on computing triconnected components of the graph and is simpler. Finally we apply tree decompositions to prove that the class of problems solved by the formalizations studied here and other formalizations reported in the literature is the same.