Constraint programming combined with machine learning provides a robust framework for addressing complex combinatorial problems across diverse domains such as energy management, production scheduling ...

The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 65, No. 10 (OCTOBER 2014), pp. 1602-1610 (9 pages) Sudoku is a puzzle played of an n × n grid N, where n is the square of a positive integer m.

Mathematical programming with vanishing constraints (MPVC) represents a challenging class of optimisation problems where certain constraints become inactive—or “vanish”—depending on specific ...