LNS meta-engine for GECODE (v5)

This repository contains a LNS meta-engine for GECODE (v5).

How to build it

The project uses CMake to generate build files. In order to build it, run

mkdir build; cd build
cmake ..
make

Remarks

In order to test it, a patch (hybrid_gecode.patch) must be applied to the gecode/search.hh include file in order to enable friendship of the BaseEngine class with LNS.

Currently there are a few workarounds (in order of relevance):

• the post of branchers has to be decoupled from model posting (see the methods to be implemented in lns_space.h) [medium]
• a few additional methods have to be added to enable LNS [medium]
• the script::run method does not currently handle meta-engines (such as LNS) as actual engines, therefore the partial template instantiation should take place explicitly (i.e., in LNSTSP) [easy]