SUNNY swMATH ID: 31800 Software Authors: Amadini, Roberto; Gabbrielli, Maurizio; Mauro, Jacopo Description: SUNNY: a lazy portfolio approach for constraint solving. Within the context of constraint solving, a portfolio approach allows one to exploit the synergy between different solvers in order to create a globally better solver. In this paper we present SUNNY: a simple and flexible algorithm that takes advantage of a portfolio of constraint solvers in order to compute – without learning an explicit model – a schedule of them for solving a given Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP). Motivated by the performance reached by SUNNY vs. different simulations of other state of the art approaches, we developed sunny-csp, an effective portfolio solver that exploits the underlying SUNNY algorithm in order to solve a given CSP. Empirical tests conducted on exhaustive benchmarks of MiniZinc models show that the actual performance of sunny-csp conforms to the predictions. This is encouraging both for improving the power of CSP portfolio solvers and for trying to export them to fields such as Answer Set Programming and Constraint Logic Programming. Homepage: https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.3353 Keywords: algorithms portfolio; artificial intelligence; constraint satisfaction; machine learning Related Software: SATzilla; MiniZinc; Proteus; sunny-cp; aspeed; SMAC; claspfolio 2; meSAT; llama; ASlib; WEKA; NumberJack; KLEE; z3; PMTK; Chaff; MiniSat; SCIP; AutoFolio; auto-sklearn Referenced in: 12 Publications Standard Articles 1 Publication describing the Software, including 1 Publication in zbMATH Year SUNNY: a lazy portfolio approach for constraint solving. Zbl 1307.68077Amadini, Roberto; Gabbrielli, Maurizio; Mauro, Jacopo 2014 all top 5 Referenced by 32 Authors 5 Amadini, Roberto 4 Gabbrielli, Maurizio 4 Mauro, Jacopo 2 Kotthoff, Lars 2 Lindauer, Marius 2 Søndergaard, Harald 2 Stuckey, Peter James 1 Audemard, Gilles 1 Bischl, Bernd 1 Björdal, Gustav 1 Dantas, Augusto Cesar Heluy 1 Flener, Pierre 1 Fréchette, Alexandre 1 Gange, Graeme 1 Hoos, Holger H. 1 Hutter, Frank 1 Janičić, Predrag 1 Kerschke, Pascal 1 Kovács, Zoltán 1 Leyton-Brown, Kevin 1 Malitsky, Yuri 1 Marinković, Vesna 1 Monette, Jean-Noël 1 Nikolić, Mladen 1 Pearson, Justin 1 Pozo, Aurora Trinidad Ramirez 1 Schachte, Peter 1 Simon, Laurent S. R. 1 Tierney, Kevin 1 van Rijn, Jan N. 1 Vanschoren, Joaquin 1 Wang, Wenxi all top 5 Referenced in 6 Serials 2 Artificial Intelligence 2 Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence 2 Theory and Practice of Logic Programming 1 Theoretical Computer Science 1 Journal of Automated Reasoning 1 Constraints Referenced in 3 Fields 11 Computer science (68-XX) 4 Operations research, mathematical programming (90-XX) 1 Geometry (51-XX) Referencing Publications by Year