My Constraint Programming Blog

Helmut Simonis has started to blog: Constraint Applications Blog - Lots of Constraint Applications. This is great news and it will be very interesting to follow his writings.

He was kind enough to email me and also described his intentions with the blog:

I will look at constraint applications (in the wider sense).

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At the moment, I'm talking about projects I have been involved in myself, but I image I will run out of material quickly, so that I will also consider papers written on applications by other authors, to abstract and classify them. The idea is to develop a collection of applications in different fields, where one can check what has been done by whom, and where to find more information.

He has been quite busy the last weeks and blogged a lot about of his projects. Here are some of the posts so far:

• Sudoku
  
• Packing Squares into Rectangles
  
• Progressive Party
  
• Poultry Transport Planning
  
• Production Planning and Scheduling for Monsanto
  
• Operational and Strategic Manpower Assignment for RFO