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Chapter 1 provides an example of low dimension, showing how problems of consistency and computational allowability can arise in even simple situations. The reader is introduced to the two main characters of this book – an experienced manager and an analyst – whose dialogue will hopefully illuminate this book’s many concepts. The bipartite graph is introduced, as are a few simple rules. However, the analyst argues that, in order to expand the tools to models of very high dimension, and in order to trust the reliability of these tools, the theory must be based on a more rigorous foundation.
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Friedman, G.J., Phan, P. (2017). Motivations. In: Constraint Theory. IFSR International Series in Systems Science and Systems Engineering, vol 23. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54792-3_1
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