Hi.
I have a set of Ports, IC and DCs. I want to enfore a new constraint. The constraint is that a given origin port can go to only 1 IC. I tried to do this by declaring an impvar called
impvar TotalNumberofICsfromEachPort {p in Ports, c in IC} = sum {d in DC} Build [c]*ContainersfromPortstoICtoDC [p,c,d]/ContainersfromPortstoICtoDC [p,c,d]; Is there a better way to achieve what I need?
I specified the constraint as follows but I am sure I am not doing it correctly.
con OneIConly:sum{p in Ports, c in IC} TotalNumberofICsfromEachPort=1;
As a background info, here are some relevant things:
var ContainersfromPortstoICtoDC {Ports,IC,DC}>=0;
set<str> Ports;/* this is a set of Ports*/
set<str> DC; /* this is a set of ICs*/
set<str> IC; /* this is a set of DCs*/
var Build {IC} binary; /* 1 if open and 0 if closed */
Thank you. I did not understand the upper bound part.
I am thinking that the upperbound on ContainersfromPortstoICtoDC [p,c,d] can be the total demand I see in the data. In which case, what is the syntax for declaring it as a variable ?
I would do it this way:
/* IsICPort[p,c] = 1 if port p goes to IC c, 0 otherwise */
var IsICPort{Ports, IC} binary;
/* given origin port can go to only 1 IC */
con OneIConly{p in Ports}:
sum{c in IC} IsICPort[p,c] = 1;
/* if ContainersfromPortstoICtoDC[p,c,d] > 0 then IsICPort[p,c] = 1, otherwise redundant */
con Link{p in Ports, c in IC, d in DC}:
ContainersfromPortstoICtoDC[p,c,d] <= ContainersfromPortstoICtoDC[p,c,d].ub * IsICPort[p,c];
For this to work, you need to define upper bounds on the ContainersfromPortstoICtoDC[p,c,d] variables, either in the VAR statement or by modifying the .ub variable suffix.
Thank you. I did not understand the upper bound part.
I am thinking that the upperbound on ContainersfromPortstoICtoDC [p,c,d] can be the total demand I see in the data. In which case, what is the syntax for declaring it as a variable ?
Yes, that seems like a reasonable upper bound. You can use <= in the VAR statement.
Thank Rob. I think it worked. Let me do some more checks to make sure it is 100% good.
Thanks again
yes. it is 100% perfect. thank you
can you confirm if this is correct way of declaring ?
var ContainersfromPortstoICtoDC {Ports,IC,DC} >=0 <=15000;
Yes, that syntax is correct, but it would be better to use a SUM expression instead of hard-coding 15000.
ok got it. will do that. good practice. thanks
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