MiniZinc Challenge 2012 Results

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Entrants

The entrants for this year (with their descriptions, when provided):

• BProlog (description). A CLP(FD) solver.
• Choco (description). A Java FD solver.
• Fzn2smt (description). Translates to SMT, uses Yices.
• Gecode (description). A C++ FD solver.
• izplus (description).
• JaCoP (description). A Java FD solver.
• Mistral 2.0 (description).
• OR-Tools (description).
• MinisatID (description).

In addition, the challenge organisers entered the following FlatZinc implementations:

• Chuffed (description). A C++ FD solver using Lazy clause generation.
• CPX. A C++ FD Solver using Lazy Clause Generation.
• G12/FD. A Mercury FD solver (the G12 FlatZinc interpreter's default solver).
• G12/LazyFD. A Mercury FD solver using Lazy Clause Generation.
• G12/CBC. Translates to MIP, uses Cbc version 2.7.7.
• G12/CPLEX. Translates to MIP, uses CPLEX version 12.4.
• G12/Gurobi. Translates to MIP, uses Gurobi Optimizer version 5.0.1.

As per the challenge rules, these entries are not eligible for prizes, but do modify the scoring results. Furthermore, entries in the FD search category were automatically included in the free search category, while entries in the free search category (including promoted FD entries) were automatically included in the parallel search category.

Summary of Results

The results for the MiniZinc Challenge 2012 are

Description of Results

All times are given in seconds.

Scores of 0, 1 and 2 are used in the tables rather than 0, 0.5 and 1.

If a promoted entry does not recognize an option (or states that it is just ignored), times and solutions from the previous category are used for scoring. The suffixes -fd, -free, and -par at the end of the solver names indicate which configuration the solvers were run with.

The time limit includes both MiniZinc compilation and solving.

In the Status column:

• S indicates that a solution was found,
• C indicates that the search was complete,
• INC indicates an incorrect answer
• MZN indicates that flattening aborted (time-out or out-of-memory)
• UNK indicates that no answer was returned in the time limit or the solver aborted.

Download all problems

All problems are available in a zipped tar-ball here.

Detailed Results

Select a list of solvers and benchmarks and click on “Compute Results” to score the solvers against each other on the selected benchmarks. The entrants for each of the FD search, free search and parallel search categories can be selected with the corresponding buttons.

Global constraint per model

The following table lists the global constraints used by each model in this year's challenge.

A gzipped tarball containing all of the problems used in this year's MiniZinc challenge is available here.

The files on this page are for MiniZinc version 1.5.