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assignment_mip

<table align="left"> <td> <a href="https://colab.research.google.com/github/google/or-tools/blob/main/examples/notebook/linear_solver/assignment_mip.ipynb">Run in Google Colab</a> </td> <td> <a href="https://github.com/google/or-tools/blob/main/ortools/linear_solver/samples/assignment_mip.py">View source on GitHub</a> </td> </table>

First, you must install ortools package in this colab.

python

%pip install ortools

MIP example that solves an assignment problem.

python

from ortools.linear_solver import pywraplp



def main():
    # Data
    costs = [
        [90, 80, 75, 70],
        [35, 85, 55, 65],
        [125, 95, 90, 95],
        [45, 110, 95, 115],
        [50, 100, 90, 100],
    ]
    num_workers = len(costs)
    num_tasks = len(costs[0])

    # Solver
    # Create the mip solver with the SCIP backend.
    solver = pywraplp.Solver.CreateSolver("SCIP")

    if not solver:
        return

    # Variables
    # x[i, j] is an array of 0-1 variables, which will be 1
    # if worker i is assigned to task j.
    x = {}
    for i in range(num_workers):
        for j in range(num_tasks):
            x[i, j] = solver.IntVar(0, 1, "")

    # Constraints
    # Each worker is assigned to at most 1 task.
    for i in range(num_workers):
        solver.Add(solver.Sum([x[i, j] for j in range(num_tasks)]) <= 1)

    # Each task is assigned to exactly one worker.
    for j in range(num_tasks):
        solver.Add(solver.Sum([x[i, j] for i in range(num_workers)]) == 1)

    # Objective
    objective_terms = []
    for i in range(num_workers):
        for j in range(num_tasks):
            objective_terms.append(costs[i][j] * x[i, j])
    solver.Minimize(solver.Sum(objective_terms))

    # Solve
    print(f"Solving with {solver.SolverVersion()}")
    status = solver.Solve()

    # Print solution.
    if status == pywraplp.Solver.OPTIMAL or status == pywraplp.Solver.FEASIBLE:
        print(f"Total cost = {solver.Objective().Value()}\n")
        for i in range(num_workers):
            for j in range(num_tasks):
                # Test if x[i,j] is 1 (with tolerance for floating point arithmetic).
                if x[i, j].solution_value() > 0.5:
                    print(f"Worker {i} assigned to task {j}." + f" Cost: {costs[i][j]}")
    else:
        print("No solution found.")


main()