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Matching flight crews

Description
The task is to form pilot/co-pilot pairs ('crews') for every plane with a compatible language and a sufficiently good knowledge of the aircraft type. In the first optimization run we maximize the number of crews that fly. The second objective is to determine the set of crews with maximum total score (best matching pilot/co-pilot pairs).

Further explanation of this example: 'Applications of optimization with Xpress-MP', Section 11.2 'Composing flight crews' (f2crew.mos)

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matching_graph.mos

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

   file matching.mos
   `````````````````
   TYPE:         Bipartite matching
   DIFFICULTY:   4
   FEATURES:     2 MIP problems with different objectives, data preprocessing,
                 incremental definition of data array, encoding of arcs, 
                 logical `or' (cumulative version) and `and', `procedure' 
                 for printing solution, `forall-do', `max', `finalize',
                 graphical representation of results, `sin', `cos'
   DESCRIPTION:  The task is to form pilot/co-pilot pairs (`crews') for every 
                 plane with a compatible language and a sufficiently good 
                 knowledge of the aircraft type. In the first optimization 
                 run we maximize the number of crews that fly. The
                 second objective is to determine the set of crews with 
                 maximum total score (best matching pilot/co-pilot pairs).    
   FURTHER INFO: `Applications of optimization with Xpress-MP', 
                 Section 11.2 `Composing flight crews'
   
   (c) 2008 Fair Isaac Corporation
       author: S. Heipcke, 2002, rev. Sep. 2017
*******************************************************!)

model "Flight crews"
 uses "mmxprs", "mmsvg"

 forward procedure print_sol
 forward procedure draw_sol

 declarations
  NP = 8                             ! Number of pilots
  PILOTS = 1..NP                     ! Set of pilots
  ARCS: range                        ! Set of arcs representing crews
  RL, RT: set of string              ! Sets of languages and plane types

  LANG: array(RL,PILOTS) of integer  ! Language skills of pilots
  PTYPE: array(RT,PILOTS) of integer ! Flying skills of pilots
  CREW: array(ARCS,1..2) of integer  ! Possible crews
 end-declarations

 initializations from 'matching.dat'
  LANG PTYPE
 end-initializations

! Calculate the possible crews
 ct:=1
 forall(p,q in PILOTS| p<q and 
                      (or(l in RL) (LANG(l,p)>=10 and LANG(l,q)>=10)) and
                      (or(t in RT) (PTYPE(t,p)>=10 and PTYPE(t,q)>=10)) ) do
  CREW(ct,1):=p
  CREW(ct,2):=q
  ct+=1
 end-do

 finalize(ARCS)
 
 declarations
  fly: array(ARCS) of mpvar           ! 1 if crew is flying, 0 otherwise
 end-declarations 
 
! First objective: number of pilots flying
 NFlying:= sum(a in ARCS) fly(a)

! Every pilot is member of at most a single crew
 forall(r in PILOTS) 
  OneCrew(r):= sum(a in ARCS | CREW(a,1)=r or CREW(a,2)=r) fly(a) <= 1

 forall(a in ARCS) fly(a) is_binary
 
! Solve the problem
 maximize(NFlying)
 
! Solution printing
 writeln("Number of crews: ", getobjval)
 print_sol

! **** Extend the problem ****
 declarations
  SCORE: array(ARCS) of integer       ! Maximum scores of crews
 end-declarations 

 forall(a in ARCS)
  SCORE(a):= max(t in RT | PTYPE(t,CREW(a,1))>=10 and PTYPE(t,CREW(a,2))>=10) 
               (PTYPE(t,CREW(a,1)) + PTYPE(t,CREW(a,2)))

! Second objective: sum of scores
 TotalScore:= sum(a in ARCS) SCORE(a)*fly(a)

! Solve the problem
 maximize(TotalScore)

 writeln("Maximum total score: ", getobjval)
 print_sol
 draw_sol
 
!-----------------------------------------------------------------

! Solution printing
 procedure print_sol
  forall(a in ARCS)
   if(getsol(fly(a))>0) then
    writeln(CREW(a,1),  " - ", CREW(a,2))
   end-if
 end-procedure  

! Solution drawing
 procedure draw_sol
  declarations
   X,Y: array(PILOTS) of real
  end-declarations
  
  forall(p in PILOTS) do
   X(p):= 20+cos(p*2*M_PI/NP)*10
   Y(p):= 20+sin(p*2*M_PI/NP)*10
  end-do
  
  svgsetgraphviewbox(0,0,35,35)
  svgsetgraphscale(5)
  svgaddgroup("PersGraph", "Pilots")
  svgaddgroup("ArcGraph", "Possible matches", svgcolor(150,150,150))
  svgaddgroup("AsgnGraph", "Crews")
 
  forall(p in PILOTS) do
   svgaddpoint("PersGraph", X(p), Y(p))
   svgaddtext("PersGraph", X(p)+0.5, Y(p), string(p))
  end-do
  
  forall(a in ARCS)
   if(getsol(fly(a))>0) then
    svgaddline("AsgnGraph", X(CREW(a,1)), Y(CREW(a,1)), 
                           X(CREW(a,2)), Y(CREW(a,2)))
    svgaddtext("AsgnGraph", (X(CREW(a,1))+X(CREW(a,2)))/2,
                            (Y(CREW(a,1))+Y(CREW(a,2)))/2, string(SCORE(a)))
   else
    svgaddline("ArcGraph", X(CREW(a,1)), Y(CREW(a,1)), 
                          X(CREW(a,2)), Y(CREW(a,2)))
   end-if
  
  svgsave("matching.svg")
  svgrefresh
  svgwaitclose("Close browser window to terminate model execution.", 1)
 end-procedure
   
end-model

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