MiniZinc Language

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A MiniZinc Language is a formal language to specific CP Tasks.



References

2014

  • http://www.minizinc.org/
    • QUOTE: MiniZinc is a medium-level constraint modelling language. It is high-level enough to express most constraint problems easily, but low-level enough that it can be mapped onto existing solvers easily and consistently. It is a subset of the higher-level language Zinc. We hope it will be adopted as a standard by the Constraint Programming community.

      FlatZinc is a low-level solver input language that is the target language for MiniZinc. It is designed to be easy to translate into the form required by a solver.


  • http://www.minizinc.org/downloads/doc-latest/minizinc-tute.pdf
    • QUOTE: MiniZinc is a language designed for specifying constrained optimization and decision problems over integers and real numbers. A MiniZinc model does not dictate how to solve the problem although the model can contain annotations which are used to guide the underlying solver.

       MiniZinc is designed to interface easily to different backend solvers. It does this by transforming an input MiniZinc model and data file into a FlatZinc model. FlatZinc models consist of variable declaration and constraint definitions as well as a definition of the objective function if the problem is an optimization problem. The translation from MiniZinc to FlatZinc is specializable to individual backend solvers, so they can control what form constraints end up in. In particular, MiniZinc allows the specification of global constraints by decomposition.

2010