Reading your paper that sounds like exactly what I'm looking for. It's still at the experimental stage, I take it? Any plans to integrate it?
Malcolm On 09/04/2008, at 12:26 AM, Guido Tack wrote: > Malcolm, > > we have been working on this kind of decomposition, you can find a > preliminary technical report at > http://arxiv.org/abs/0712.2389 > > The resulting system needs some extensions to Gecode, so it is > currently not available in Gecode directly. > > Cheers, > Guido > > Malcolm Ryan wrote: > >> At a certain stage in my search the problem can be split into several >> independent sub-problems. If I try to solve them sequentially, then a >> failure in one of the later ones will cause fruitless backtracking in >> the earlier ones (when it really needs to jump all the way back to >> the >> first phase of the search). Does Gecode provide any kind of mechanism >> for handling this situation? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Malcolm >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gecode users mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> https://www.gecode.org/mailman/listinfo/gecode-users _______________________________________________ Gecode users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.gecode.org/mailman/listinfo/gecode-users