On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 09:09:19AM +0000, Simon King wrote: > On 2013-04-16, Nicolas M. Thiery <nicolas.thi...@u-psud.fr> wrote: > > For non exact covers, this can be formulated straightforwardly as a > > Mixed Integer Linear Program (MILP): take a 0-1 variable y_S for each > > set S, and an inequation $\sum_{S, x\in S} y_S \geq 1$. So the problem > > can be reduced (efficiently???) to that of iterating through the > > integer points in a polytope. There are very optimized software using > > backtracking algorithm to find optimal solutions for such systems of > > equations. > > How can this be done in Sage?
sage: MixedIntegerLinearProgram? :-) But Nathann will be the one to tell you about the status for the iteration feature. Cheers, Nicolas -- Nicolas M. ThiƩry "Isil" <nthi...@users.sf.net> http://Nicolas.Thiery.name/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-combinat-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-combinat-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-combinat-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-combinat-devel?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.