Talks

Talks

Conference presentations sit beside workshops and standalone talks. Some entries have interactive slides or video; others preserve the delivery and its context.

2026

TalkThe 25th International Workshop on Constraint Modelling and Reformulation (ModRef 2026)

No More Awkward Silences with Table Talk Tuning

A constraint model for wedding-table assignments that balances practical seating requests with the chance that every guest can find a well-supported conversation topic.

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TalkThe 25th International Workshop on Constraint Modelling and Reformulation (ModRef 2026)

Scaling Sudoku as a Constraint Problem

What changes when Sudoku grows from 6×6 to 36×36, based on propagation experiments and a public corpus of 434,201 generated instances.

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2025

2020

TalkModRef 2020

Half-checking Propagators

What changes when a propagator may deliberately remove solutions, while every solution it reports must still be genuine?

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2019