Creating Tests for a Family of Cost Aware Resource Constraints

In this paper we describe a benchmark generator for a family of cost aware resource constraints. These constraints have been introduced in the context of electricity cost minimization, but can also be applied for other use cases like manpower scheduling. None of the existing resource constraint benchmarks include a cost element, we therefore created our own test generator to evaluate the quality of different constraint implementations. The generator is written in Java, produces an XML instance format, and is available on the website of the authors.