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Models and thresholds for random constraint satisfaction problems. (English) Zbl 1192.68652

Proceedings of the thirty-fourth annual ACM symposium on theory of computing (STOC 2002), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 19–21, 2002. New York, NY: ACM Press (ISBN 1-581-13495-9). 209-217, electronic only (2002).
For the entire collection see [Zbl 1074.68502].

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68T20 Problem solving in the context of artificial intelligence (heuristics, search strategies, etc.)
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