Monthly Archives: August 2010

Preview of Applications at CP2010 in St Andrews

Posted on August 30, 2010 by

Just a short note on the upcoming CP2010 conference in St. Andrews. It is a good year for constraint applications, with quite a number of application talks at the conference. I’ve got the following list from the conference programme: Tuesday … Continue reading →

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Bandwidth on Demand

Posted on August 16, 2010 by

Bandwidth on Demand (BoD) describes a network management problem, where users can request large amounts of bandwidth, but only for some fixed time interval. The network management tool must find out if such a request can be accommodated on the … Continue reading →

Posted in 2003, 61 Telecommunications, 61.1 Wired Telecommunnications, ECLiPSe, J Information and Communications, live application, Network | Leave a comment

Short Article on CPTV

Posted on August 11, 2010 by

The work on CPTV (Constrained-Based Personalized TV Schedules) was sponsored by the Commercialization Fund of Enterprise Ireland, one of our national funding agencies, with support from the European Regional Development Fund. In the July/August issue of EI’s magazine, Technology Ireland, … Continue reading →

Posted in 2009, 59 Motion pictures video and TV, 59.1 Motion pictures video and TV programmes, ECLiPSe, J Information and Communications, prototype, Scheduling, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Please tell me about application areas you want to see more about. This will help me to focus on areas of interest to you!

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Train Crew Diagraming

Posted on August 7, 2010 by

This probably was the most complex and complicated project I was ever working on. And while we delivered the product and met the specification (we even got the bonus payment for solution quality), the system was never used operationally. The … Continue reading →

Posted in 1999, 49 Land Transport, 49.1 Passenger rail transport, CHIP, H Transportation and Storage, industrial study, live application, Personnel, Transport, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Open Flight Repair for Air Crew

Posted on August 4, 2010 by

Allocating air crew (flight deck and cabin crew) to cover the flights of an airline is typically done with a large-scale rostering application, which are often based on column generation techniques, resulting in very large-scale set covering problems. These tools … Continue reading →

Posted in 1994, 51 Air Transport, 51.1 Passenger Air Transport, CHIP, H Transportation and Storage, live application, Personnel, Transport | 1 Comment

Electrical Distribution Network Maintenance and Reconfiguration

Posted on August 2, 2010 by

The application I want to talk about today is described in “Constraint-based Maintenance Scheduling on an Electric Power-Distribution Network by Tom Creemers, Lluís Ros Giralt, Jordi Riera, Carles Ferrarons, Josep Roca, Xavier Corbella,  in Proceedings of The Third International Conference … Continue reading →

Posted in 1995, 35 Electricity Gas Steam and Air Conditioning Supply, 35.1 Electricity power generation transmission and distribution, CHIP, CHIP Users Club, D Electricity Gas Steam and Air Conditioning Supply, live application, Network, Practical Applications Conferences, Scheduling | 2 Comments