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CSCLP
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Better Propagation for Non-preemptive Single-Resource Constraint Problems
Abstract. Overload checking, forbidden regions, edge finding, and notfirst/not-last detection are well-known propagation rules to prune the start times of activities which have t...
Armin Wolf
CPAIOR
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A Position-Based Propagator for the Open-Shop Problem
The Open-Shop Problem is a hard problem that can be solved using Constraint Programming or Operation Research methods. Existing techniques are efficient at reducing the search tree...
Jean-Noël Monette, Yves Deville, Pierre Dupon...
CONSTRAINTS
2006
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13 years 4 months ago
Constraint Models for the Covering Test Problem
Covering arrays can be applied to the testing of software, hardware and advanced materials, and to the effects of hormone interaction on gene expression. In this paper we develop c...
Brahim Hnich, Steven David Prestwich, Evgeny Selen...
HEURISTICS
2002
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13 years 4 months ago
Using Constraint-Based Operators to Solve the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows
This paper presents operators searching large neighborhoods in order to solve the vehicle routing problem. They make use of the pruning and propagation techniques of constraint pr...
Louis-Martin Rousseau, Michel Gendreau, Gilles Pes...
CP
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Encodings of the Sequence Constraint
Abstract. The SEQUENCE constraint is useful in modelling car sequencing, rostering, scheduling and related problems. We introduce half a dozen new encodings of the SEQUENCE constra...
Sebastian Brand, Nina Narodytska, Claude-Guy Quimp...