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examples/notebook/contrib/who_killed_agatha.ipynb

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who_killed_agatha

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First, you must install ortools package in this colab.

python
%pip install ortools

Who killed agatha? (The Dreadsbury Mansion Murder Mystery) in Google CP Solver.

This is a standard benchmark for theorem proving.

http://www.lsv.ens-cachan.fr/~goubault/H1.dist/H1.1/Doc/h1003.html ''' Someone in Dreadsbury Mansion killed Aunt Agatha. Agatha, the butler, and Charles live in Dreadsbury Mansion, and are the only ones to live there. A killer always hates, and is no richer than his victim. Charles hates noone that Agatha hates. Agatha hates everybody except the butler. The butler hates everyone not richer than Aunt Agatha. The butler hates everyone whom Agatha hates. Noone hates everyone. Who killed Agatha? '''

Originally from F. J. Pelletier: Seventy-five problems for testing automatic theorem provers. Journal of Automated Reasoning, 2: 216, 1986.

Note1: Since Google CP Solver/Pythons (currently) don't have special support for logical operations on decision variables (i.e. ->, <->, and, or, etc), this model use some IP modeling tricks.

Note2: There are 8 different solutions, all stating that Agatha killed herself

Compare with the following models:

This model was created by Hakan Kjellerstrand ([email protected]) Also see my other Google CP Solver models: http://www.hakank.org/google_or_tools/

python
from collections import defaultdict

from ortools.constraint_solver import pywrapcp


def var_matrix_array(solver, rows, cols, lb, ub, name):
  x = []
  for i in range(rows):
    t = []
    for j in range(cols):
      t.append(solver.IntVar(lb, ub, "%s[%i,%i]" % (name, i, j)))
    x.append(t)
  return x


def flatten_matrix(solver, m, rows, cols):
  return [m[i][j] for i in range(rows) for j in range(cols)]


def print_flat_matrix(m_flat, rows, cols):
  for i in range(rows):
    for j in range(cols):
      print(m_flat[i * cols + j].Value(), end=" ")
    print()
  print()


def main(the_killers):

  # Create the solver.
  solver = pywrapcp.Solver("Who killed agatha?")

  #
  # data
  #
  n = 3
  agatha = 0
  butler = 1
  charles = 2

  #
  # declare variables
  #
  the_killer = solver.IntVar(0, 2, "the_killer")
  the_victim = solver.IntVar(0, 2, "the_victim")

  hates = var_matrix_array(solver, n, n, 0, 1, "hates")
  richer = var_matrix_array(solver, n, n, 0, 1, "richer")

  hates_flat = flatten_matrix(solver, hates, n, n)
  richer_flat = flatten_matrix(solver, richer, n, n)

  #
  # constraints
  #

  # Agatha, the butler, and Charles live in Dreadsbury Mansion, and
  # are the only ones to live there.

  # A killer always hates, and is no richer than his victim.
  # solver.Add(hates[the_killer, the_victim] == 1)
  solver.Add(solver.Element(hates_flat, the_killer * n + the_victim) == 1)

  # solver.Add(richer[the_killer, the_victim] == 0)
  solver.Add(solver.Element(richer_flat, the_killer * n + the_victim) == 0)

  # define the concept of richer: no one is richer than him-/herself
  for i in range(n):
    solver.Add(richer[i][i] == 0)

  # (contd...) if i is richer than j then j is not richer than i
  #  (i != j) => (richer[i,j] = 1) <=> (richer[j,i] = 0),
  for i in range(n):
    for j in range(n):
      if i != j:
        solver.Add((richer[i][j] == 1) == (richer[j][i] == 0))

  # Charles hates noone that Agatha hates.
  # forall i : Range .
  #  (hates[agatha, i] = 1) => (hates[charles, i] = 0),
  for i in range(n):
    solver.Add((hates[agatha][i] == 1) <= (hates[charles][i] == 0))

  # Agatha hates everybody except the butler.
  solver.Add(hates[agatha][charles] == 1)
  solver.Add(hates[agatha][agatha] == 1)
  solver.Add(hates[agatha][butler] == 0)

  # The butler hates everyone not richer than Aunt Agatha.
  # forall i : Range .
  #  (richer[i, agatha] = 0) => (hates[butler, i] = 1),
  for i in range(n):
    solver.Add((richer[i][agatha] == 0) <= (hates[butler][i] == 1))

  # The butler hates everyone whom Agatha hates.
  # forall i : Range .
  #  (hates[agatha, i] = 1) => (hates[butler, i] = 1),
  for i in range(n):
    solver.Add((hates[agatha][i] == 1) <= (hates[butler][i] == 1))

  # Noone hates everyone.
  # forall i : Range .
  #   (sum j : Range . hates[i,j]) <= 2,
  for i in range(n):
    solver.Add(solver.Sum([hates[i][j] for j in range(n)]) <= 2)

  # Who killed Agatha?
  solver.Add(the_victim == agatha)

  #
  # solution and search
  #
  solution = solver.Assignment()
  solution.Add(the_killer)
  solution.Add(the_victim)
  solution.Add(hates_flat)
  solution.Add(richer_flat)

  # db: DecisionBuilder
  db = solver.Phase(hates_flat + richer_flat, solver.CHOOSE_FIRST_UNBOUND,
                    solver.ASSIGN_MIN_VALUE)

  solver.NewSearch(db)
  num_solutions = 0
  while solver.NextSolution():
    print("the_killer:", the_killer.Value())
    the_killers[the_killer.Value()] += 1
    print("the_victim:", the_victim.Value())
    print("hates:")
    print_flat_matrix(hates_flat, n, n)
    print("richer:")
    print_flat_matrix(richer_flat, n, n)
    print()
    num_solutions += 1

  solver.EndSearch()

  print()
  print("num_solutions:", num_solutions)
  print("failures:", solver.Failures())
  print("branches:", solver.Branches())
  print("WallTime:", solver.WallTime())


the_killers = defaultdict(int)
p = ["agatha", "butler", "charles"]
main(the_killers)

print("\n")
for k in the_killers:
  print("the killer %s was choosen in %i solutions" % (p[k], the_killers[k]))