Hi Conrad, I am not so sure what you are really up to here but I think what you are trying to do seems to be too advanced for the pre-defined branchers as described in Chapter 7.
Did you have a look at Part B in MPG? There you have considerably more freedom, in particular if you want the brancher to remember certain aspects. Sorry, I know this is not all too helpful. Best Christian -- Christian Schulte, www.ict.kth.se/~cschulte/ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 10:25 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [gecode-users] Executing code between branchers - the right way to go? Hello there, I'd greatly appreciate feedback on what the Gecode-way of attacking the following two issues is: 1) My model features set variables. I have a custom brancher that uses a heuristics to include certain elements in pairs of set variables sets[i] and sets[i+1]. Before moving on to the next pair of variables I'd like to fix sets[i] and sets[i+1] to the elements in the glb, e.g. by posting an additional constraint that the cardinality of sets[i] is sets[i].cardMin(). >From MPG 7.1.7 "Executing code between branchers" I cannot figure out how to pass the index i to the more()-function, so some help on that would be great. Or should I go for an assignment-brancher for set variables? Yet something else? 2) Once I have assigned sets[i] and sets[i+1] I'd like to store the pair as a no-good combination not to be tried again for any consecutive pair of set variables. Actually it's a bit more complicated, as for the nogood I also need to consider certain values not in sets[i] and sets[i+1]. I only want to check for no-goods once I have assigned another pair of set variables. Would you recommend going for a hash of no-goods? And could this be maintained in a way similar to what is sketched in MPG 7.1.7? Alternatively, I could post a constraint that excludes the no-good and use a custom propagator to ensure this is only checked once the respective variables are assigned. Thanks for reading; any input is much appreciated! Cheers, Conrad _______________________________________________ Gecode users mailing list [email protected] https://www.gecode.org/mailman/listinfo/gecode-users _______________________________________________ Gecode users mailing list [email protected] https://www.gecode.org/mailman/listinfo/gecode-users
