Coloring-Map-with-CSP
We were given a list of countries in South America and the colors we can use. First
we needed to keep the border neighbors of each of the countries in South America in a data
structure. I created a dictionary named graph and kept the country-neighbor key-pairs here.
According to our algorithm, first of all, we need to color the country with the most neighbors. In
other words, I thought that we should sort the countries according to the number of neighbors, so I
wrote a method called sortCountriesByNeighbors. Then I have a method called colorTheCountry. In
this method, the countries are colored using back-tracking. I have a counter called ‘counter’. Initially,
I initialize its value from 0, and if the value of the counter is equal to the color value, there is no other
color we can try. In such a case there is no solution so it will print ‘unsolved problem’ to the screen.
Apart from these, I have a method called isColorCorrect. In this method, I checked whether the
coloring is correct. If one of the neighbors of a country has the same color as the country, it means
that we have made the wrong coloring here. By calling this method called isColorCorrect within the
colorTheCountry method, our operations continue according to whether the coloring is correct or
not.
Variables: X={“Argentina”, “Bolivia”, “Brazil”, “Chile”, “Colombia”, “Ecuador”, “Falkland Islands”,
“Guyana”, “Paraguay”,”Peru”, “Suriname”, “Uruguay”, “Venezuela”}
Domains: D={“blue”, “green”, “red”, “yellow”}
Constraints: adjacent regions must have different colors.
C={ ( “Argentina” != “Bolivia”, “Brazil”, “Chile”, “Paraguay”, “Uruguay”),
(“Bolivia” != “Argentina”, “Brazil”, “Chile”, “Paraguay”, “Peru”),
(“Brazil” != “Argentina”, “Bolivia”, “Colombia”, “Guyana”, “Paraguay”, “Peru”, “Suriname”, “Uruguay”,
“Venezuela”),
(“Chile” != ” Argentina”, “Bolivia”, “Peru”),
(“Colombia” !=”Brazil”, “Ecuador”, “Peru”, “Venezuela”),
(“Ecuador” != “Colombia”, “Bolivia”, “Peru”),
(“Guyana” != “Brazil”, “Suriname”, “Venezuela”),
(“Paraguay” !=”Argentina”, “Bolivia”, “Brazil”),
(“Peru” != “Bolivia”, “Brazil”, “Chile”, “Colombia”, “Ecuador”),
(“Suriname” != “Brazil”, “Guyana”),
(“Uruguay” !=”Argentina”, “Brazil”),
(“Venezuela” != “Brazil”, “Colombia”, “Guyana”) }
