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Constraint Programming and Operations Research: Comments from an Operations Researcher

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This paper relates the author's personal experience with constraint programming and gives a personal assessment of the relationships between constraint programming and operations research.

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  1. Centre de recherche sur les transports and Département d'informatique et de recherche opérationnelle, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, succursale Centre-ville, Montréal, Canada, H3C 3J7

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Gendreau, M. Constraint Programming and Operations Research: Comments from an Operations Researcher. Journal of Heuristics 8, 19–24 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1013657516627

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