Some runs terminate during their construction heuristics phase (where the first solution is being searched).

Construction heuristics typically finish in seconds, but there are datasets where this takes longer, and the termination limit kicks in. Today these runs have status “complete” in the platform & UI. But if you dig into the logs of the run, you see that the local search phase of the solver didn’t start yet.

If the construction heuristics did not fully finish, the results of such a run will be incomplete (it will not contain all entities), and associated metrics will also not be taking into account the full submitted problem. As such, it’s important information to decide how to use the results of the run.

This is a request to add a new status “Incomplete” in the platform so these types of runs are easily distinguishable from runs where construction heuristics did finish, and the local search phase was started, and optimization ran.