Dictionary of Constraints

Abstract

This book advocates modeling with metaconstraints, which represent structured groups of more elementary constraints. As explained in Chapter 1, this allows modelers to write succinct formulations and to communicate the structure of the problem to the solver. Ideally, modelers would have at hand a menu of constraints, organized by problem domain, or in other ways that guide them to the right choice of constraints. This chapter provides a sampling of some metaconstraints that might appear on that menu.