On Feb 3, 2008 1:08 PM, Mikael Zayenz Lagerkvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2 feb 2008, at 18.15, Didier Loiseau wrote: > > I am trying to post a propagator for the constraint > > x' = x or x' = epsilon > > with x and x' integer variables and epsilon some constant not in > > dom(x).
> If you are concerned with efficieny, then you could add a custom > propagator for this constraint. I realised that I actually implemented this constraint about a year ago, and dug it out. The code below can be used to propagate "x=y | x=z" for integer variables x, y, and z by using Extra::diseq(home, x, y, z). I haven't tested it thoroughly, but I believe that it works. Cheers, Mikael <code> /* * Main authors: * Mikael Lagerkvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * * Copyright: * Mikael Lagerkvist, 2007 * * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining * a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the * "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including * without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, * distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to * permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to * the following conditions: * * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be * included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. * * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, * EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF * MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND * NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE * LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION * OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION * WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. * */ #include "gecode/kernel.hh" #include "gecode/int.hh" #include "gecode/iter.hh" #include "gecode/int/rel.hh" namespace Extra { using namespace ::Gecode; /** * \brief Domain-consistent propagator for \f$ x_1=x_2\lor x_1=x_3\f$. */ template <class View> class DisEq : public TernaryPropagator<View,Int::PC_INT_DOM> { protected: using TernaryPropagator<View,Int::PC_INT_DOM>::x0; using TernaryPropagator<View,Int::PC_INT_DOM>::x1; using TernaryPropagator<View,Int::PC_INT_DOM>::x2; /// Constructor for cloning \a p DisEq(Space* home, bool share, DisEq& p); /// Constructor for posting DisEq(Space* home, View x0, View x1, View x2); public: /// Constructor for rewriting \a p during cloning DisEq(Space* home, bool share, Propagator& p, View x0, View x1, View x2); /// Copy propagator during cloning virtual Actor* copy(Space* home, bool share); /// Perform propagation virtual ExecStatus propagate(Space* home); /// Post propagator static ExecStatus post(Space* home, View x0, View x1, View x2); }; template <class View> inline DisEq<View>::DisEq(Space* home, View x0, View x1, View x2) : TernaryPropagator<View,Int::PC_INT_DOM>(home,x0,x1,x2) {} template <class View> ExecStatus DisEq<View>::post(Space* home, View x0, View x1, View x2) { (void) new (home) DisEq<View>(home,x0,x1,x2); return ES_OK; } template <class View> inline DisEq<View>::DisEq(Space* home, bool share, DisEq<View>& p) : TernaryPropagator<View,Int::PC_INT_DOM>(home,share,p) {} template <class View> inline DisEq<View>::DisEq(Space* home, bool share, Propagator& p, View x0, View x1, View x2) : TernaryPropagator<View,Int::PC_INT_DOM>(home,share,p,x0,x1,x2) {} template <class View> Actor* DisEq<View>::copy(Space* home, bool share) { return new (home) DisEq<View>(home,share,*this); } template <class View> ExecStatus DisEq<View>::propagate(Space* home) { typedef Int::ViewRanges<View> Ranges; Ranges vr1(x1), vr2(x2); Iter::Ranges::Union<Ranges, Ranges> u12(vr1, vr2); GECODE_ME_CHECK(x1.inter_r(home, u12, false)); if (rtest_nq_dom(x0, x1) == Int::RT_TRUE) GECODE_REWRITE(this, (Int::Rel::EqDom<View, View>::post(home, x0, x2))); if (rtest_nq_dom(x0, x2) == Int::RT_TRUE) GECODE_REWRITE(this, (Int::Rel::EqDom<View, View>::post(home, x0, x1))); return x0.assigned() && (x1.assigned() || x2.assigned()) ? ES_SUBSUMED(this,home) : ES_FIX; } /** \brief Post propagator for \f$ x_1=x_2\lor x_1=x_3\f$ */ void diseq(Space* home, IntVar x1, IntVar x2, IntVar x3) { Int::IntView v1(x1), v2(x2), v3(x3); GECODE_ES_FAIL(home,DisEq<Int::IntView>::post(home, v1, v2, v3)); } } </code> -- Mikael Zayenz Lagerkvist, http://www.ict.kth.se/~zayenz/ _______________________________________________ Gecode users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.gecode.org/mailman/listinfo/gecode-users