Q) Consider the following logic puzzle: In five houses, each with a different co
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Q) Consider the following logic puzzle: In five houses, each with a different color, live five persons of different nationalities, each of whom prefers a different brand of candy, a different drink, and at different pet. Given the following facts, the questions to answer are “Where does the zebra live, and in which house do they drink water?"The Englishman lives in the red house.
The Spaniard owns the dog.
The Norwegian lives in the first house on the left.
The green house is immediately to the right of the ivory house.
The man who eats Hershey bars lives in the house next to the man with the fox.
Kit Kats are eaten in the yellow house.
The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
The Smarties eater owns snails.
The Snickers eater drinks orange juice.
The Ukrainian drinks tea.
The Japanese eats Milky Ways.
Kit Kats are eaten in a house next to the house where the horse is kept.
Coffee is drunk in the green house.
Milk is drunk in the middle house.
Discuss different representations of this problem as a CSP. Why would one prefer one representation over another?
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Dear user, From given data considered then the following points represented below: The "Zebra puzzle" can be represented as a CSP by introducing a variable for each color, pet, drink, country and candy brand. It is total of 25 variables. The value of each variable is a number from 1 to 5 indicating the house number. From this, it is easy to represent all the constraints given in the problem’s definition. The other reason to choose a representation is the efficiency of finding a solution.Here, we have mixed results on the same runs. Min-conflicts local search finds a solution for this problem in seconds, while, on other runs, it fails to find a solution after minutes. Another representation is to have five variables for each house, one with the domain of colors, one with pets, and so on.Related Questions
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