Counting solutions of integer programs using unrestricted subtree detection

  • Authors:
  • Tobias Achterberg;Stefan Heinz;Thorsten Koch

  • Affiliations:
  • ILOG Deutschland, Bad Homburg, Germany;Zuse Institute Berlin, Berlin, Germany;Zuse Institute Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  • Venue:
  • CPAIOR'08 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Integration of AI and OR techniques in constraint programming for combinatorial optimization problems
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In the recent years there has been tremendous progress in the development of algorithms to find optimal solutions for integer programs. In many applications it is, however, desirable (or even necessary) to generate all feasible solutions. Examples arise in the areas of hardware and software verification and discrete geometry. In this paper, we investigate how to extend branch-and-cut integer programming frameworks to support the generation of all solutions. We propose a method to detect so-called unrestricted subtrees, which allows us to prune the integer program search tree and to collect several solutions simultaneously. We present computational results of this branchand-count paradigm which show the potential of the unrestricted subtree detection.