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Christian Bessiere

Christian Bessiere

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Computer Science

D-Index
41
Citations
7825
World Ranking
8782
National Ranking
209

Overview

Christian Bessière is affiliated with the University of Montpellier in France. Their research primarily falls within the field of Computer Science, with a focus on subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Information Systems, and Signal Processing.

The scientist's work addresses several topics, notably:

  • Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization
  • Machine Learning and Algorithms
  • Rough Sets and Fuzzy Logic
  • Advanced Database Systems and Queries
  • Semantic Web and Ontologies
  • Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference
  • Formal Methods in Verification

Throughout their career, Christian Bessière has contributed publications to various venues, including:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Christian Bessière include:

  • Learning constraints through partial queries, 2023, Artificial Intelligence
  • Filtering Decomposable Global Cost Functions, 2021, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • Constraint Acquisition Based on Solution Counting, 2022, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
  • Chain Length and CSPs Learnable with Few Queries, 2020, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • Computational Complexity of Three Central Problems in Itemset Mining, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)

Christian Bessière's frequent co-authors include Clément Carbonnel, Emmanuel Hébrard, George Katsirelos, Nadjib Lazaar, and Kostas Stergiou.

The scientist has also contributed to book publications, such as a work published by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique titled Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2020.

Best Publications

  • Arc-consistency and arc-consistency again

    Christian Bessière

  • Arc-consistency and arc-consistency again

    Christian Bessière;Marie-Odile Cordier

  • MAC and combined heuristics: two reasons to forsake FC (and CBJ?) on hard problems

    Christian Bessière;Jean-Charles Régin

  • Refining the basic constraint propagation algorithm

    Christian Bessière;Jean-Charles Régin

  • Arc Consistency for General Constraint Networks: Preliminary Results.

    Christian Bessière;Jean-Charles Régin

  • Some Practicable Filtering Techniques for the Constraint Satisfaction Problem.

    Romuald Debruyne;Christian Bessière

  • Constraint Propagation

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  • An optimal coarse-grained arc consistency algorithm

    Christian Bessière;Jean-Charles Régin;Roland H. C. Yap;Yuanlin Zhang

  • Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2020

    Christian Bessière

  • Arc-consistency in dynamic constraint satisfaction problems

    Christian Bessière

  • Domain filtering consistencies

    Romuald Debruyne;Christian Bessiére

  • Using inference to reduce arc consistency computation

    Christian Bessiere;Eugene C. Freuder;Jean-Charles Regin

  • Asynchronous backtracking without adding links: a new member in the ABT family

    Christian Bessière;Arnold Maestre;Ismel Brito;Pedro Meseguer

  • Specific Filtering Algorithms for Over-Constrained Problems

    Thierry Petit;Thierry Petit;Jean-Charles Régin;Christian Bessière

  • Backtracking in Distributed Constraint Networks

    Youssef Hamadi;Christian Bessiere;Joel Quinqueton

  • On forward checking for non-binary constraint satisfaction

    Christian Bessière;Pedro Meseguer;Eugene C. Freuder;Javier Larrosa

  • Distributed Dynamic Backtracking

    Christian Bessière;Arnold Maestre;Pedro Meseguer

  • From restricted path consistency to max-restricted path consistency

    R. Debruyne;C. Bessiere

  • To be or not to be...a global constraint

    Christian Bessière;Pascal Van Hentenryck

  • Using Constraint Metaknowledge to Reduce Arc Consistency Computation

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  • Optimal and suboptimal singleton arc consistency algorithms

    Christian Bessiere;Romuald Debruyne

  • Symmetry breaking

    Toby Walsh

Frequent Co-Authors

Toby Walsh
Toby Walsh University of New South Wales
Jean-Charles Régin
Jean-Charles Régin Université Côte d'Azur
Luc De Raedt
Luc De Raedt KU Leuven
Eugene C. Freuder
Eugene C. Freuder University College Cork
Dino Pedreschi
Dino Pedreschi University of Pisa
Pascal Van Hentenryck
Pascal Van Hentenryck Georgia Institute of Technology
Siegfried Nijssen
Siegfried Nijssen Université Catholique de Louvain
Bart Selman
Bart Selman Cornell University
Carla P. Gomes
Carla P. Gomes Cornell University

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