IBM ILOG Solver User's Manual > The Basics > Constraint Programming with IBM ILOG Solver > Solve > Search strategy

Solver uses a search strategy to guide the search for a solution. A search strategy is a way to "try" a value for a variable to see if this will lead to a solution. To demonstrate how Solver uses search strategies to find a solution, consider a search strategy that takes variable x and assigns it the lowest value in the domain of x. For the first search move in this strategy, Solver assigns the value 10 to the variable x.

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Figure 1.3 Search strategy- assign variable x the lowest value in its domain, 10