# Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

**Type:** Topics  
**Canonical URL:** https://scholariq.org/topics/constraint-satisfaction-and-optimization-2/

## Facts

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Citations | 462,844 |
| Description | This cluster of papers focuses on distributed constraint optimization problems and algorithms, including topics such as random satisfiability, local search, spatial reasoning, algorithm selection, phase transitions, soft constraints, temporal reasoning, and graph coloring. |
| Domain | Physical Sciences |
| Field | Computer Science |
| OpenAlex ID | https://openalex.org/T11596 |
| Works | 50,106 |

## Topic researchers

Showing 12 of 20.

- [Herbert A. Simon](https://scholariq.org/researchers/herbert-a-simon/)
- [L. A. Zadeh](https://scholariq.org/researchers/l-a-zadeh/)
- [Jon Kleinberg](https://scholariq.org/researchers/jon-kleinberg/)
- [Marco Dorigo](https://scholariq.org/researchers/marco-dorigo/)
- [Peter Dayan](https://scholariq.org/researchers/peter-dayan/)
- [Judea Pearl](https://scholariq.org/researchers/judea-pearl/)
- [Xin‐She Yang](https://scholariq.org/researchers/xin-she-yang/)
- [David S. Johnson](https://scholariq.org/researchers/david-s-johnson-2/)
- [Adi Shamir](https://scholariq.org/researchers/adi-shamir/)
- [Gerd Gigerenzer](https://scholariq.org/researchers/gerd-gigerenzer/)
- [Qing Liu](https://scholariq.org/researchers/qing-liu/)
- [Amir H. Gandomi](https://scholariq.org/researchers/amir-h-gandomi/)

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