Constraint Logic Programming and Integer Programming approaches and their collaboration in solving an assignment scheduling problem
Author(s) -
K Darby-Dowman,
James Little,
Gautam Mitra,
Marco Zaffalon
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
constraints
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.624
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1572-9354
pISSN - 1383-7133
DOI - 10.1007/bf00137871
Subject(s) - integer programming , constraint programming , computer science , concurrent constraint logic programming , constraint satisfaction , mathematical optimization , scheduling (production processes) , constraint logic programming , logic programming , set (abstract data type) , inductive programming , programming paradigm , theoretical computer science , programming language , mathematics , algorithm , artificial intelligence , stochastic programming , probabilistic logic
Generalised Assignment Problems (GAP), traditionally solved by Integer Programmingtechniques, are addressed in the light of current Constraint Programming methods. Ascheduling application from manufacturing, based on a modified GAP, is used to examinethe performance of each technique under a variety of problem characteristics.Experimental evidence showed that, for a set of assignment problems, Constraint LogicProgramming (CLP) performed consistently better than Integer Programming (IP)....
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