Perfect Derived Propagators
  When implementing a propagator for a constraint, one must decide about
variants: When implementing min, should one also implement max? Should one
implement linear equations both with and without coefficients? Constraint
variants are ubiquitous: implementing them requires considerable (if not
prohibitive) effort and decreases maintainability, but will deliver better
performance.
  This paper shows how to use variable views, previously introduced for an
implementation architecture, to derive perfect propagator variants. A model for
views and derived propagators is introduced. Derived propagators are proved to
be indeed perfect in that they inherit essential properties such as correctness
and domain and bounds consistency. Techniques for systematically deriving
propagators such as transformation, generalization, specialization, and
channeling are developed for several variable domains. We evaluate the massive
impact of derived propagators. Without derived propagators, Gecode would
require 140000 rather than 40000 lines of code for propagators.
