
Backtracking and Branch-and-Bound are the main methods for solving combinatorial search and optimization problems. The paper proposes two randomized schemas for implementing the two methods in their full generality in a message-passing multiprocessor system with a constant number of processors. A careful probabilistic analysis shows that with high probability the proposed algorithms achieve within a constant factor the optimal theoretic speed-up. The paper is of great interest for both algorithms and distributed systems specialists.
Backtrack search, Analysis of algorithms and problem complexity, Distributed algorithms, branch-and-bound, Combinatorics in computer science, distributed parallel computation
Backtrack search, Analysis of algorithms and problem complexity, Distributed algorithms, branch-and-bound, Combinatorics in computer science, distributed parallel computation
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