Publications
Here are some selected publications.
You can find a fuller list on my Google Scholar profile page.
Published in Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2024) , 2024
Learning to select SAT encodings for individual constraints in a CSP instance.
Recommended citation: Felix Ulrich-Oltean, Peter Nightingale, James A. Walker, "IndiCon: Selecting SAT Encodings for Individual Pseudo-Boolean and Linear Integer Constraints", Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2024) https://pure.york.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/indicon-selecting-sat-encodings-for-individual-pseudo-boolean-and
Published in White Rose E-theses Repository, 2024
My PhD thesis on using ML to select SAT encodings for constraints
Recommended citation: Felix Ulrich-Oltean, "Learning SAT Encodings for Constraint Satisfaction Problems", PhD Thesis, University of York, March 2024. https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/34581/
Published in Proceedings of the Thirty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence , 2023
Using ML strategies to decide whether to reformulate parts of constraint models as table constraints.
Recommended citation: Carlo Cena, Özgür Akgün, Zeynep Kiziltan, Ian Miguel, Peter Nightingale, Felix Ulrich-Oltean, "Learning When to Use Automatic Tabulation in Constraint Model Reformulation", Proceedings of the Thirty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence Main Track. Pages 1902-1910. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2023/211
Published in Constraints, 2021
Extended journal version of the work in the first two technical chapters of my PhD thesis
Recommended citation: Felix Ulrich-Oltean, Peter Nightingale & James A. Walker, "Learning to select SAT encodings for pseudo-Boolean and linear integer constraints". Constraints 28, 397–426 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10601-023-09364-1
Published in Artificial Intelligence, 2021
A thorough presentation of SAT encodings for pseudo-boolean constraints optimised for the existence of at-most-one constraints on the variables in their scope. The first paper I was able to contribute to during my PhD.
Recommended citation: Miquel Bofill, Jordi Coll, Peter Nightingale, Josep Suy, Felix Ulrich-Oltean, Mateu Villaret, "SAT encodings for Pseudo-Boolean constraints together with at-most-one constraints", Artificial Intelligence, Volume 302, 2022, 103604, ISSN 0004-3702. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2021.103604