$title Alcuin's River Crossing (CROSS,SEQ=191) $onText A farmer carrying a bushel of corn and accompanied by a goose and a wolf came to a river. He found a boat capable of transporting himself plus one of his possessions - corn, goose, or wolf - but no more. Now, he couldn't leave the corn alone with the goose, nor the goose alone with the wolf, else one would consume the other. Nevertheless, he succeeded in getting himself and his goods across the river safely. Borndoerfer, R, Groetschel, M, and Loebel, A, Alcuin's Transportation Problem and Integer Programming. Konrad Zuse Zentrum for Informationstechnik, Berlin, 1995. Contributed by Soren Nielsen, Institute for Mathematical Sciences University of Copenhagen Keywords: mixed integer linear programming, Alcuin's transportation problem $offText Set i 'items' / goose, wolf, corn / t 'time' / t1*t10 /; Parameter dir(t) 'crossing - near to far is +1 - far to near -1'; dir(t) = power(-1,ord(t) - 1); display dir; Variable y(i,t) '1 iff the item is on the far side at time t' cross(i,t) 'crossing the river' done(t) 'all items in far side' nocross 'number of non crossing periods'; Binary Variable y; Positive Variable cross, done; Equation DefDone(i,t) 'everything on far side' DefCross(i,t) 'crossing' LimCross(t) EatNone1(t) EatNone2(t) Obj; DefCross(i,t+1).. y(i,t+1) =e= y(i,t) + dir(t)*cross(i,t); DefDone(i,t) .. done(t) =l= y(i,t); limCross(t+1).. sum(i, cross(i,t)) =l= 1; EatNone1(t).. dir(t)*(y('goose',t) + y('wolf',t) - 1) =l= done(t); EatNone2(t).. dir(t)*(y('goose',t) + y('corn',t) - 1) =l= done(t); Obj.. nocross =e= sum(t, done(t)); Model river / all /; y.fx(i,t)$(ord(t) = 1) = 0; option optCr = 0; solve river using mip maximizing nocross; display y.l, cross.l;