IBM ILOG Solver User's Manual > More on Solving > Controlling the Search: Locating Warehouses > Review exercises

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  1. What is node evaluator and a search selector?
  2. What is Slice-Based Search (SBS)?
  3. 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.
  4. 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.