By John N. Hooker
"Integrated equipment for optimization integrates the foremost options of Mathematical Programming and Constraint Programming right into a unified framework that permits them to be generalized and mixed. The unification of MP and CP creates optimization equipment that experience a lot larger modeling energy elevated computational velocity and a massive relief in computational coding integration for this reason has great advantages supplying the technologies with a strong high-level modeling answer for optimization difficulties. As reviewers of the publication have famous built-in tools are actually being included into answer software program bringing the sphere a step toward a really all-purpose solver."--Jacket. learn more...
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By solving Rk and making use of this bound, one may be able to accelerate the search by avoiding solution of the generally harder problem Pk . For instance, if the optimal value v of Rk is greater than or equal to the value of the best candidate solution found so far, then there is no need to solve Pk , 20 Search since its optimal value can be no better than v. One can regard Pk as having been enumerated, even though it is not actually solved. In many cases the solution of a relaxation also guides the search by helping to determine the next restriction Pk+1 or the inferences that are derived from Pk+1 .