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Past exam of the computer science course of the University of Oxford 2015 Intelligent systems 3 b ii Solution by
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The constraint hypergraph has one vertex for each of and one hypergraph edge for each constraint scope:Here abbreviates . These five scopes follow the corrected source.[ref]
Intelligent Systems examination paper by the University of Oxford (2015). Printed p. 4, corrected Question 3(b), constraints (1)–(5)
The diagram uses the incidence representation: round nodes are the original variables, square nodes represent hypergraph edges, and a joining line means that the variable belongs to that constraint scope. The square nodes are not extra variables of .In particular, the central pattern involving forms a cycle through three constraint scopes; the scopes cannot themselves simply be joined into a valid tree decomposition without an additional bag.
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