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THE CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION PROBLEM AND UNIVERSALALGEBRA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2015

LIBOR BARTO
LIBOR BARTO*
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DEPARTMENT OF ALGEBRA FACULTY OF MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS CHARLES UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE SOKOLOVSKÁ 83 18675 PRAHA 8, CZECH REPUBLICE-mail: libor.barto@gmail.comURL: http://www.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/∼barto
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Abstract

This paper gives a brief survey of current research on the complexity of theconstraint satisfaction problem over fixed constraint languages.

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68Q2508A7008B05constraint satisfaction problemuniversal algebra
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Bulletin of Symbolic Logic , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , September 2015 , pp. 319 - 337
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Copyright © The Association for Symbolic Logic 2015 

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