… , the choice of binary or non-binary constraints can have a … general (non-binary) CSP model
into an equivalent binary CSP… choosing between binary and non-binary constraints. Further, …

… on the corresponding non-binary CSP. We present both … translating a non-binary CSP
into a binary representation can … translating between non-binary and binary representations. …

… of the constraint satisfaction paradigm, its restriction to binary … more subject to thrashing than
on binary networks [1]. Local … of constraint reasoning, must also be applied in the non-binary …

… Finally, it is important to point out that the use of a binary encoding does … non-binary constraints
in a problem into binary, as it is commonly perceived. If we are selective in the constraints …

… for non-binary problems. We also consider their pruning power in the case where we only
have binary constraints. … for binary problems, when restricted to binary constraints they do not …

… We can solve a non-binary CSP either by … to non-binary constraints or by translating it into
a binary CSP. There exist two well known methods for translating non-binary CSPs into binary …

… than when the benchmark non-binary reduction search algorithm GAC2001 [14] is used. …
This may be helpful with binary constraints but it is certainly not necessary in the present context…

… different ways in which binary FC can be generalized into non-binary versions. In Section 4,
… designed to deal with the hidden binary formulation of non-binary problems. In Section 5, we …

… and implied constraints in modelling a class of non-binary constraint satisfaction problems
… We identify a large number of different models, both binary and non-binary, and compare …

… few such consistencies have been proposed for non-binary constraints. In this paper, we …
PIC when restricted to binary constraints, while for non-binary constraints rel PIC and PWIC …