For answers, see "Suggested answers".
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What is node evaluator and a search selector?
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What is Slice-Based Search (SBS)?
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Modify the program in this lesson to use the data file
YourSolverHome/examples/data/store_ex3.dat
. This data file contains information for 30 stores and 15 warehouses. The ten additional potential warehouse sites are: Munich, Barcelona, Prague, Dublin, Madrid, Lisbon, Berlin, Amsterdam, Brussels, and Milan.
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Modify the file
YourSolverHome/examples/src/graph.cpp
to use Slice-Based Search (SBS) instead of the default Depth-First Search (DFS). Comment out the code using the IloBasicLevel
filter level. Run the file on the clique set starting with size 61. As you remember, this is a particularly difficult instance of the problem to solve. Evaluate the solutions you get and compare them to the solution you found in Chapter 12, Setting Filter Levels: Coloring Graphs.