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The Multi-Inter-Distance Constraint
Pierre Ouellet and Claude-Guy Quimper
We introduce the multi-inter-distance constraint that ensures no more than $m$ variables are assigned to values lying in a window of p consecutive values. This constraint is useful for modeling scheduling problems where tasks of processing time p compete for m identical resources. We present a propagator that achieves bounds consistency in cubic time. Experiments show that this new constraint offers a much stronger filtering than an edge-finder and that it allows to solve larger instances of the runway scheduling problem.