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Recent improvements using constraint integer programming for resource allocation and scheduling

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  • Recently, we compared the performance of mixed-integer programming (MIP), constraint programming (CP), and constraint integer programming (CIP) to a state-of-the-art logic-based Benders manual decomposition (LBBD) for a resource allocation/scheduling problem. For a simple linear relaxation, the LBBD and CIP models deliver comparable performance with MIP also performing well. Here we show that algorithmic developments in CIP plus the use of an existing tighter relaxation substantially improve one of the CIP approaches. Furthermore, the use of the same relaxation in LBBD and MIP models significantly improves their performance. While such a result is known for LBBD, to the best of our knowledge, the other results are novel. Our experiments show that both CIP and MIP approaches are competitive with LBBD in terms of the number of problems solved to proven optimality, though MIP is about three times slower on average. Further, unlike the LBBD and CIP approaches, the MIP model is able to obtain provably high-quality solutions for all problem instances.

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Author:Stefan Heinz, Wen-Yang Ku, J. Christopher Beck
Document Type:ZIB-Report
Tag:constraint integer programming; constraint programming; cumulative constraint; mixed integer programming; optional activities
MSC-Classification:65-XX NUMERICAL ANALYSIS / 65Kxx Mathematical programming, optimization and variational techniques / 65K05 Mathematical programming methods [See also 90Cxx]
90-XX OPERATIONS RESEARCH, MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING / 90Cxx Mathematical programming [See also 49Mxx, 65Kxx] / 90C10 Integer programming
Date of first Publication:2013/01/17
Series (Serial Number):ZIB-Report (13-05)
ISSN:1438-0064
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