IBM ILOG Scheduler User's Manual > Advanced Concepts > More Advanced Problem Modeling with Concert Technology > Defining the Problem, Designing a Model > Time Horizon

In this example, we choose the time origin to be 0 and time horizon to be 18. For this kind of problem, nothing guarantees that a solution exists. In fact, for all we know at this point, some of the constraints may be incompatible with one another, precluding a solution to the problem.