Thank you for the reply Guido. I will try and see what I can manage.


On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 6:10 AM, Guido Tack <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 13 Feb 2012, at 19:32, Wajid Hassan wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am one of the beginner users of CP and Gecode.
>
> I am doing a problem model on allocation, binding and scheduling and the
> closest example I could find on Gecode is the open-shop scheduling problem.
> I was hoping that you could guide me to a better example that also involves
> binding (assigning tasks to resources) in addition to scheduling just to
> get an idea. I have been trying hard but have not managed to do the binding
> in parallel with scheduling so far.
>
>
> There is no direct support for this in Gecode.  You could try to
> introduce, for each task, an optional task on each resource, and then put a
> constraint on the BoolVars that represent the optionality so that exactly
> one of them must be active.  The problem is that Gecode doesn't have
> built-in search heuristics for this kind of problem, and you probably need
> a special heuristic to solve anything of interesting size.
>
> Cheers,
> Guido
>
> --
> Guido Tack,
> http://www.csse.monash.edu/~guidot/
>
>
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