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Title: Computational complexity and an integer programming model of Shakashaka
Authors: Demaine, Erik D.
Okamoto, Yoshio
Uehara, Ryuhei
Uno, Yushi
Keywords: integer programming
NP-complete
pencil-and-paper puzzle
Shakashaka
Issue Date: 2014-06-01
Publisher: 電子情報通信学会
Magazine name: IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Volume: E97-A
Number: 6
Start page: 1213
End page: 1219
Abstract: Shakashaka is a pencil-and-paper puzzle proposed by Guten and popularized by the Japanese publisher Nikoli (like Sudoku). We determine the computational complexity by proving that Shakashaka is NP-complete, and furthermore that counting the number of solutions is #P-complete. Next we formulate Shakashaka as an integer-programming (IP) problem, and show that an IP solver can solve every instance from Nikoli's website within a second.
Rights: Copyright (C)2014 IEICE. Erik D. Demaine, Yoshio Okamoto, Ryuhei Uehara, and Yushi Uno, IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences, E97-A(6), 2014, 1213-1219. http://www.ieice.org/jpn/trans_online/
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10119/12147
Material Type: publisher
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