public void Run()
{
var api = new ApiHelper <Ivr7.SolveRequest, Ivr7.SolutionResponse>("ivr7-kt461v8eoaif", configFile);
// so here we're going to build the model
// create a solve request
Ivr7.SolveRequest sr = new Ivr7.SolveRequest();
sr.Model = new Ivr7.Model(); // initialise the model container
// we're going to reuse the helpers described in the ivr7basic example. Please see that for a reference.
ivr7helper.makeDistanceTimeCapDims(sr.Model); // adds distance, time & capacity
ivr7helper.makeLocations(sr.Model, data); // adds all the locations to the model
ivr7helper.makeJobTimeCap(sr.Model, data, ivr7helper.Rep(0, data.Count - 1), ivr7helper.Seq(1, data.Count));
sr.Model.vehicleCostClasses.Add(ivr7helper.makeVccSimple("vcc1", 1000, 0.01f, 0.01f, 0.01f, 1, 3));
sr.Model.vehicleClasses.Add(ivr7helper.makeVcSimple("vc1", 1, 1, 1, 1));
for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++)
{
sr.Model.Vehicles.Add(ivr7helper.makeVehicleCap("vehicle_" + i, // unique id for the vehicle.
"vc1", // the vehicle class
"vcc1", // the vehicle cost class
2000, // the capacity of the vehicle
data[0].id, // start location for the vehicle
data[0].id, // end location for the vehicle
7 * 60, // start time: 7 AM
18 * 60 // end time: 6 PM
));
}
sr.solveType = Ivr7.SolveRequest.SolveType.Optimise; // Optimise the solve request.
// now it's just sending the model to the api
string requestId = api.Post(sr); // send the model to the api
var initialSolution = api.Get(requestId); // get the response (which it typed, so that's cool)
// so we can do a few things here, we can add constraints which weren't in the original
// model, evaluate the same sequence and see if any constraints are broken?
// sure, this sounds like fun. Lets add some time windows to all the locations and see
// what that does.
foreach (var l in sr.Model.Locations)
{
var a = new Ivr7.Location.Attribute()
{
dimensionId = "time",
arrivalWindows = { new Ivr7.Window {
Start = 8 * 60,
End = 14 * 60
} }
};
l.Attributes.Add(a);
}
// okay, so now we've added a 08:00 - 14:00 window on all the locations.
// in order to evaluate our current solution against this new solution
// we need to convert our current solution to a task sequence (which is done
// by vehicle)
// so the only catch here is that the shift-start and shift-end nodes are implicitly already there
// so all we really need to do is pull out the nodes inbetween. So we filter on only the tasks we're
// scheduling in the last solution we received.
foreach (var r in initialSolution.Routes)
{
// so the definition is, for a vehicle: list the tasks that vehicle should perform
// each item in the list is another vehicle. vehicles with no tasks can be omitted
List <string> tasklist = new List <string>();
for (int i = 1; i < r.Stops.Count - 1; i++)
{
tasklist.Add(r.Stops[i].taskId);
}
if (tasklist.Count > 0)
{
var ts = new Ivr7.TaskSequence {
vehicleId = r.vehicleId
};
foreach (var t in tasklist)
{
ts.taskIds.Add(t);
}
sr.Model.taskSequences.Add(ts);
}
}
sr.solveType = Ivr7.SolveRequest.SolveType.Evaluate; // now evaluate this sequence with the new constraints
requestId = api.Post(sr); // send the new model to the api
Solution = api.Get(requestId); // get the response (which it typed, so that's cool)
// just print the infeasibilities
ivr7helper.printSolution(Solution, false, false, false, true);
// so here we should have some constraints which have been broken.
// We get told which dimension is related (if the constraint is related to a dimension)
// we also get told which type of constraint (if known) and the degree to which the constraint is broken.
// if the constraints are tardy constraints being broken, this means the task starts AFTER the
// allowable window. the limit will be often be zero, the value will be the amount by which the
// vehicle is late. we can check the arrival time of the task to verify this.
HashSet <string> infeasibleTasks = new HashSet <string>();
foreach (var t in Solution.Infeasibilities)
{
infeasibleTasks.Add(t.taskId);
}
foreach (var r in initialSolution.Routes)
{ // now step through the initial solution and confirm this.
foreach (var s in r.Stops)
{
if (infeasibleTasks.Contains(s.taskId))
{
foreach (var a in s.Attributes)
{
if (a.dimId == "time")
{
if (!(a.startValue > 14 * 60))
{
throw new Exception("Hmmm. a stop was marked as infeasible but it's arrival time looks okay?");
// don't worry, this won't happen unless the solver is broken, or you're checking against
// the incorrect solution reference.
}
}
}
}
}
}
// we could try other things: how about we take out all tasks which are infeasible?
// lets modify the solve request to take out these stops.
foreach (var ts in sr.Model.taskSequences)
{
foreach (var tskId in ts.taskIds.ToArray())
{
if (infeasibleTasks.Contains(tskId))
{
ts.taskIds.Remove(tskId); // lol. this is O(n) on the .net list (which is actually an array). For this example it's fine,
// but in general, it's better a linkedlist for these kinds of operators. Although you need a prettty
// massive model to really feel the performance impact of this.
}
}
}
// okay, but kinda obviously, the pickups were mostly feasible on their time windows, it was
// just the dropoffs that were a problem. So now we have pickups without a dropoff?
// what will happen?
// lets re-run the model and check for infeasibilities
requestId = api.Post(sr); // send the new model to the api
Solution = api.Get(requestId); // get the response (which it typed, so that's cool)
// just print the infeasibilities
ivr7helper.printSolution(Solution, false, false, false, true);
// so this is again, very intuitive. We find that there are a whole bunch of precendence
// constraints which are then broken, cumul-pair constraints and task-pair constraints.
// this is because there's a relation between the pickup and dropoff and either they're BOTH scheduled
// or BOTH unscheduled. Having one task assigned to a vehicle in the schedule without the other breaks
// a bunch of constraints.
// so lets apply the same trick and remove these stops.
foreach (var t in Solution.Infeasibilities)
{
infeasibleTasks.Add(t.taskId);
}
foreach (var ts in sr.Model.taskSequences)
{
foreach (var tskId in ts.taskIds.ToArray())
{
if (infeasibleTasks.Contains(tskId))
{
ts.taskIds.Remove(tskId);
}
}
}
requestId = api.Post(sr); // send the new model to the api
Solution = api.Get(requestId); // get the response (which it typed, so that's cool)
// just print the infeasibilities
ivr7helper.printSolution(Solution, false, false, false, true);
// great, this is actually an empty table now, which means there aren't any infeasibilities left in the schedule
// but at what cost did that come? Quite a lot. the solution now is very expensive.
// We could simply copy the solution, then switch the model back to optimise and re-run it
var prevSolution = Solution;
sr.solveType = Ivr7.SolveRequest.SolveType.Optimise;
requestId = api.Post(sr);
Solution = api.Get(requestId);
if (prevSolution.Objective < Solution.Objective)
{
throw new Exception("Whoa, this doesn't make any sense :-)");
}
ivr7helper.printSolution(Solution);
// with no infeasibilities.
// for visualisations see the R/python notebook for plots on the same example.
return;
}
public void Run()
{
var api = new ApiHelper <Ivr7.SolveRequest, Ivr7.SolutionResponse>("ivr7-kt461v8eoaif", configFile);
// so here we're going to build the model
// create a solve request
var m = new Ivr7.Model(); // initialise the model container
// we're going to reuse the helpers described in the ivr7basic example. Please see that for a reference.
ivr7helper.makeDistanceTimeCapDims(m); // adds distance, time & capacity
ivr7helper.makeLocations(m, data); // adds all the locations to the model
ivr7helper.makeJobTimeCap(m, data, ivr7helper.Rep(0, data.Count - 1), ivr7helper.Seq(1, data.Count));
m.vehicleCostClasses.Add(ivr7helper.makeVccSimple("vcc1", 1000, 0.01f, 0.01f, 0.01f, 1, 3));
m.vehicleClasses.Add(ivr7helper.makeVcSimple("vc1", 1, 1, 1, 1));
for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++)
{
m.Vehicles.Add(ivr7helper.makeVehicleCap("vehicle_" + i, // unique id for the vehicle.
"vc1", // the vehicle class
"vcc1", // the vehicle cost class
2000, // the capacity of the vehicle
data[0].id, // start location for the vehicle
data[0].id, // end location for the vehicle
7 * 60, // start time: 7 AM
18 * 60 // end time: 6 PM
));
}
// okay, so that's a basic model. Lets now use the objects, but submit them to the api
// through a different mechanism.
var data_api = new ApiHelper <IVRData.CachedModel, object>("ivrdata-o43e0dvs78zq", configFile);
// so the data api allows us to push just the data, without anything else.
var dataModel = new IVRData.CachedModel();
dataModel.Model = ApiHelper <object, object> .SerialiseObject <Ivr7.Model>(m);
// epic: we just saved our model as a byte stream into this data payload.
string modelID = data_api.Post(dataModel);
var sr = new Ivr7.SolveRequest(); // we can now make a solve request which references the model we've uploaded
sr.modelID = modelID; // tell the solve request to use the model we uploaded.
sr.solveType = Ivr7.SolveRequest.SolveType.Optimise; // Optimise the solve request.
// now it's just sending the model to the api
string requestId = api.Post(sr); // send the model to the api
Solution = api.Get(requestId); // get the response (which it typed, so that's cool)
ivr7helper.printSolution(Solution);
// this also means that because we have a model which is versioned separately from the
// solve request, we can use the solve request with the task-sequence and have that apply
// to a model. So lets extract the task sequence from the solved model.
foreach (var r in Solution.Routes)
{
List <string> tasklist = new List <string>();
for (int i = 1; i < r.Stops.Count - 1; i++)
{
tasklist.Add(r.Stops[i].taskId);
}
if (tasklist.Count > 0)
{
var ts = new Ivr7.TaskSequence {
vehicleId = r.vehicleId
};
foreach (var t in tasklist)
{
ts.taskIds.Add(t);
}
sr.Routes.Add(ts); //NOTE: We're adding the tasks to the solve request, not the model - the task sequence will be
// applied to the model we've referenced in this example
}
}
sr.solveType = Ivr7.SolveRequest.SolveType.Evaluate; // now evaluate this sequence with the model reference (i.e. a minimal data-send)
requestId = api.Post(sr);
var EvalSolution = api.Get(requestId);
// just print the infeasibilities
ivr7helper.printSolution(EvalSolution);
if (Math.Abs(EvalSolution.Objective - Solution.Objective) > 0.01f)
{
throw new Exception("Evaluation not identical to original solution value?");
}
// so this is pretty nice when we think about it. It means that if you want to evaluate
// several permutations (i.e. modifications on a UI) then you don't have to resend the model each
// time, you can send it only when the master data is modified (i.e. times, locations, tasks etc)
// and then just use an evaluate solve request against a particular task-sequence.
// for visualisations see the R/python notebook for plots on the same example.
return;
}