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Conventional finite-domain constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs), and the algorithms that solve them, assume that: value domains are sets, variable instantiation is constrained only by value, and each variable, or node, has its own value domain. We extend the CSP definition to allow both domains and variable nodes to be multi-sets. By so doing we introduce a type of constraint we call instance-...