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Implementing limit on index in constraint

  • 9 January 2023
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Hi all, 

I need to give a certain range to an index in a constraint, but I am not sure how to implement this in AIMMS. It is the following constraint: 

 

 In AIMMS already have this constraint but how do I change the constraint to the situation above? 

 

 

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Best answer by gdiepen 9 January 2023, 16:17

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You can use the | operator (or such-that operator) for this in AIMMS.

 

In your case, if you want to generate that constraint for all i that are not equal to the first, you could do something like:

 

index domain: i | ord(i) >= 2

(ord gives the ordinal position in the set of the element, so this would restrict the generation to only those i that have ordinal position greater or equal then 2.

Within a sum, you can also limit the combinations by using the | operator again:

 

sum[   (j,t ) | ord(t) >=2,    x(i,j,t) ] <=1

This would only includes those values of t in the sum that have ordinal position >= 2.

Based on the model formulation, you will have to determine what to put after the | operator

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@gdiepen  Thank you for your answer! I figured out how to use the operator and which values to use. I have still one problem. 

I have the original decision variable x(i,j,t)= 1 if job j of production order i is started on time t. 

 

The capacity constraint needs to hold for every single t. However there is an internal summation over t’ in T(i,j,t). How do I implement that such that AIMMS know that x(i,j,t’) is the same as x(i,j,t)? I can add a constraint that tells that x(i,j,t) = x(i,j,t’) but is  there an easier way?   

How can I implement this in the correct way, the constraint below is not doing anything. However, it also gives no warnings. See constraint and original model below. 

 

 

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Nevermind, already fixed. 

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