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Discrete combinatorial optimization has a central role in many scientific disciplines, however, for hard problems we lack linear time algorithms that would allow us to solve very large instances.

We first give some indicative results of a comparison between the various algorithms using random problems. Figure 7 compares the time that is required to enforce AC in the DE and GAC in the ...