Research Article

Top- Based Adaptive Enumeration in Constraint Programming

Table 6

Number of backtracks solving magic squares, Sudoku, and the knight problem with different strategies.

Strategy MS MSSudoku Knight Knight
() () () ()

12 910 18 76719,818
1,19146,675 1043942,88943,098
3 185 4 76719,818
10 5,231 1818,83819,716
5146,299 2 76719,818
4244,157 6,54142,88943,098
329,416 9 76719,818
2921,847 218,84019,716

HH-GA 0 7 2 8,190 4,105
HH-PSO4 53 826 667 29,608
Top- 1 207 2,744 613 6,835