Arising from research in the computer science community, constraint programming is a relatively new technique for solving optimization problems. For those familiar with mathematical programming, there are a number of language barriers that exist that make it difficult to understand the concepts of constraint programming. This paper, which assumes a minimal background in linear and integer progr...

“Hybrid” climate policy simulations have sought to bridge the gap between “bottom-up” engineering and “top-down” macroeconomic models by integrating the former's energy technology detail into the latter's macroeconomic framework. Construction of hybrid models is complicated by the need to numerically calibrate them to multiple, incommensurate sources of economic and engineering data. I develop ...