摘要 |
A method for automated document layout using interactive tradeoff generation during the optimization of a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) is provided. The method includes generating a constraint satisfaction problem describing the layout of the items in the document as a problem having constraints, finding inconsistent constraints which are incapable of being satisfied together, generating tradeoffs for the inconsistent constraints capable of eliminating one or more of the inconsistent constraints, choosing one or more of the tradeoffs as being one or more acceptable tradeoffs and using them to optimize the CSP to arrive at an optimized document layout.
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