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Puzzles and pastimes from the book `Programmation Lineaire'

Description
The following models implement solutions to the puzzles published in the book `Programmation Lineaire' by C. Gueret, C. Prins, and M. Sevaux (Eyrolles 2000, in French). Each problem is implemented as a MIP and as a CP model.



Problem nameDifficulty
K‑1 Playing Mastermind **
K‑2 Marathon puzzle *
K‑3 Congress puzzle *
K‑4 Placing chips *
K‑5 Nephew puzzle **
K‑6 N-queens problem *


These models show how to formulate different logical constraints using binary variables (MIP models) or logical constraint relations and global constraints (CP models).

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Source Files





k5nephew.mos

(!******************************************************
   Mosel Example Problems
   ======================

   file k5nephew.mos
   `````````````````
   Distributing wine barrels among nephews
   
   A farmer wishes to distribute his 45 wine barrels among
   his 5 nephews. 9 barrels are full, 9 filled to 3/4, 
   9 half-full, 9 filled to a quarter, and 9 are empty.
   Each nephew is to receive the same number of barrels
   and the same volume of wine. Furthermore, each nephew
   must receive at least one barrel of every type and 
   no two of the nephews must be allocated exactly the
   same number of barrels of every fill type. 
   - Enumerating multiple solutions -
   
   (c) 2008 Fair Isaac Corporation
       author: S. Heipcke, Mar. 2002, rev. June 2011
*******************************************************!)

model "K-5 Nephew"
 uses "mmxprs"

 declarations
  NN = 5; NT = 5
  NEPHEWS = 1..NN                     ! Nephews
  TYPES = 1..NT                       ! Contents types of wine barrels
  BARRELS = 45
    
  COEF: array(TYPES) of integer       ! Factors for "alldifferent" constraint
  FILL: array(TYPES) of real          ! Fill level of barrels

  give: array(NEPHEWS,TYPES) of mpvar ! Barrels of type t for every nephew
  p: array(NEPHEWS) of mpvar          ! 'Pattern': value of the product
                                      !            c*give(n,t)
 end-declarations

 FILL:: [1, 0.75, 0.5, 0.25, 0]
 COEF:: [10000, 1000, 100, 10, 1]

! Barrels per nephew
 forall(n in NEPHEWS) sum(t in TYPES) give(n,t) = BARRELS/NN
 forall(t in TYPES) sum(n in NEPHEWS) give(n,t) = BARRELS/NN

! Equilibrated contents
 forall(n in NEPHEWS) 
  sum(t in TYPES) FILL(t)*give(n,t) = BARRELS/NN * (sum(t in TYPES) FILL(t))/NT

! Every nephew receives a different number of barrels of any given type
! (that is, a different pattern for every nephew)
 forall(n in NEPHEWS) sum(t in TYPES) COEF(t)*give(n,t) = p(n)
 forall(n in 2..NN) p(n) - p(n-1) >= 1

 forall(n in NEPHEWS,t in TYPES) do
  give(n,t) is_integer
  1 <= give(n,t); give(n,t) <= NN
 end-do

! Solve the problem: no objective
 minimize(XPRS_ENUM,0)

! Solution printing
 forall(i in 1..getparam("XPRS_enumsols")) do
  selectsol(i)                      ! Select a solution from the pool
  writeln("Solution ", i)
  forall(n in NEPHEWS) do
   write(n,": ")
   forall(t in TYPES) write( getsol(give(n,t)), " " )
   writeln
  end-do
 end-do
end-model

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