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Modelling a problem requires us to break it down into its constituent decisions, requirements and its data. This process is illustrated in four small examples: “Boats and Docks”, the “Knapsack” problem, the “Assignment” problem and the “Travelling Salesman” problem. Arrays are introduced as a way of separating the generic model of the problem from data associated with specific instances of the problem.
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Wallace, M. (2020). Modelling and Choices. In: Building Decision Support Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41732-1_2
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