Originally posted by: FANS_Nader_Al_Theeb

Dear all

I have a routing problem with multi-depot and multi items should be distributed.

The problem includes two types of variables (items), integer and linear. So far, I solved it using CPLEX - concert.

I'm new in CP, Can I use CP optimizer to solve a problem with integer and linear variables or not.

Other question is about IBM-ILOG-dispatcher, can this software be used to solve such problems or not?

Appreciate any help

Thanks
Nader
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Hello,

CP Optimizer is not tuned for big routing problems, although it is able to solve many of them. For big problems Dispatcher may be better.
I'm not sure what you mean by "linear variables". Note the CP Optimizer does not support floating-point decision variables, however you can use expressions like x/1000 instead to achieve precision 0.001.

Best regards, Petr
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Originally posted by: FANS_Nader_Al_Theeb

Thank you Petr

What I mean by linear variables is continuous not integer. Imagine that I have two types of items, one is integer (number of parts), and other is continuous (like oil quantity) which can be provided as 3.5, 2.2, 1.8 and so on. And quantities for both types are decision variables not parameters

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