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Re: [Help-glpk] forall and exists?
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Re: [Help-glpk] forall and exists? |
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Tue, 7 May 2013 12:54:10 +0200 (CEST) |
Hello Andrew,
GLPK is a linear programming solver. A constraint with an IF would not be
linear.
In linear programming you might introduce binary variables for your purpose.
Or use a constraint programming solver.
Best regards
Heinrich Schuchardt
http://www.xypron.de
Am 07.05.13 um 07:48 schrieb Jay Hutfles
> Oh, I don't think there's anything wrong with them. Well, except for how
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> I'm trying to use them.
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> I see that the examples only use them in computable parameters, though. I
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> was trying to use them in constraints, and was getting errors along the
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> lines of "forall function does not exist" (sorry, I don't have the exact
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> error with me). The constraints were of the form:
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> for all a in A, if x[a] =1 then there exists a b in B such that
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> (something or another based on a)
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> I was having trouble directly implementing constraints of this form, so I
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> changed the "if p then q" form to "not p or q" like this:
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> subject to C {a in A} :
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> (1 - x[a]) + (if exists {b in B} (...something or other based on a..)
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> then 1 else 0) >= 1;
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> I'll have to try again in the morning when I'm more awake. Thanks for the
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> guidance, Andrew.
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> On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 11:36 PM, Andrew Makhorin <address@hidden> wrote:
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> > > Can you provide a link to an example of each? Any help would be
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> > > appreciated.
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> > Please see glpk/examples/color.mod (for 'exists') and
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> > glpk/examples/egypt.mod (for 'forall').
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> > What is wrong with these operators?
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