Constraint Programming (CP) has been successful in a number of combinatorial search and discrete optimisation problems. Yet other more traditional approaches, such as Integer Programming (IP), can ...

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The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 50, No. 6 (Jun., 1999), pp. 581-595 (15 pages) This paper is aimed at researchers and practitioners in ...

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