Constraint programming combined with machine learning provides a robust framework for addressing complex combinatorial problems across diverse domains such as energy management, production scheduling ...

Constraint Programming (CP) has been successful in a number of combinatorial search and discrete optimisation problems. Yet other more traditional approaches, such as Integer Programming (IP), can ...

The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 65, No. 10 (OCTOBER 2014), pp. 1602-1610 (9 pages) Sudoku is a puzzle played of an n × n grid N, where n is the square of a positive integer m.