Thursday, October 30, 2008

Langford's problem

The problem is to find integer sequences with special characteristics. See http://www.lclark.edu/~miller/langford.html. An example of a sequence is





I.e. we have 4 sets of 2 numbers 1,2,3,4 where between number k we have k other numbers.


With Microsoft Solver Foundation it is easy to create a constraint programming version that solves much quicker and in addition it is easy to add a simple user interface.




Note that there are improved CP formulations. See e.g. http://4c.ucc.ie/~bms/Papers/ResearchReports/2000_18.ps

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