The CLP Procedure

Functional Summary

The statements and options available in PROC CLP are summarized by purpose in Table 3.1.

Table 3.1: Functional Summary

Description	Statement	Option
Assignment Strategy Options
Specifies the variable assignment strategy	PROC CLP	VARASSIGN=
Specifies the activity assignment strategy	SCHEDULE	ACTASSIGN=
Data Set Options
Specifies the activity input data set	PROC CLP	ACTDATA=
Specifies the constraint input data set	PROC CLP	CONDATA=
Specifies the solution output data set	PROC CLP	OUT=
Specifies the resource input data set	PROC CLP	RESDATA=
Specifies the resource assignment data set	PROC CLP	SCHEDRES=
Specifies the time assignment data set	PROC CLP	SCHEDTIME=
Specifies the schedule output data set	PROC CLP	SCHEDULE=
Domain Options
Specifies the global domain of all variables	PROC CLP	DOMAIN=
Specifies the domain for selected variables	VARIABLE
General Options
Specifies the upper bound on time (seconds)	PROC CLP	MAXTIME=
Suppresses preprocessing	PROC CLP	NOPREPROCESS
Permits preprocessing	PROC CLP	PREPROCESS
Specifies the units of MAXTIME	PROC CLP	TIMETYPE=
Implicitly defines Constraint data set variables	PROC CLP	USECONDATAVARS=
Objective Function Options
Specifies the lower bound for the objective	OBJ	LB=
Specifies the tolerance for the search	OBJ	TOL=
Specifies the upper bound for the objective	OBJ	UB=
Output Control Options
Finds all possible solutions	PROC CLP	FINDALLSOLNS
Specifies the number of solution attempts	PROC CLP	MAXSOLNS=
Indicates progress in log	PROC CLP	SHOWPROGRESS
Scheduling CSP-Related Statements
Defines activity specifications	ACTIVITY
Defines resource requirement specifications	REQUIRES
Defines resource specifications	RESOURCE
Defines scheduling parameters	SCHEDULE
Scheduling: Resource Constraints
Specifies the edge-finder consistency routines	SCHEDULE	EDGEFINDER=
Specifies the not-first edge-finder extension	SCHEDULE	NOTFIRST=
Specifies the not-last edge-finder extension	SCHEDULE	NOTLAST=
Scheduling: Temporal Constraints
Specifies the activity duration	ACTIVITY	(DUR=)
Specifies the activity finish lower bound	ACTIVITY	(FGE=)
Specifies the activity finish upper bound	ACTIVITY	(FLE=)
Specifies the activity start lower bound	ACTIVITY	(SGE=)
Specifies the activity start upper bound	ACTIVITY	(SLE=)
Specifies the schedule duration	SCHEDULE	DURATION=
Specifies the schedule finish	SCHEDULE	FINISH=
Specifies the schedule start	SCHEDULE	START=
Scheduling: Search Control Options
Specifies the dead-end multiplier	PROC CLP	DM=
Specifies the number of allowable dead ends per restart	PROC CLP	DPR=
Specifies the number of search restarts	PROC CLP	RESTARTS=
Selection Strategy Options
Specifies the variable selection strategy	PROC CLP	VARSELECT=
Specifies the activity selection strategy	SCHEDULE	ACTSELECT=
Specifies variable selection strategies for evaluation	PROC CLP	EVALVARSEL=
Specifies activity selection strategies for evaluation	SCHEDULE	EVALACTSEL=
Enables time limit updating for strategy evaluation	PROC CLP	DECRMAXTIME
Standard CSP Statements
Specifies the all-different constraints	ALLDIFF
Specifies the array specifications	ARRAY
Specifies the element constraints	ELEMENT
Specifies the for-each constraints	FOREACH
Specifies the global cardinality constraints	GCC
Specifies the lexicographic ordering constraints	LEXICO
Specifies the linear constraints	LINCON
Specifies the bin packing constraints	PACK
Specifies the reified constraints	REIFY
Defines the variable specifications	VARIABLE