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The problem was proposed at CP‘96, and posted to comp.constraints by Jim Ho Man Lee on 22nd October 1996. The posting is archived at [CompConstraints96Posting].

The following paper studies different ways of modeling the Mystery Shopper Problem as a constraint satisfaction problem.

The following paper reports the application of E-GENET to solving the problem and the benchmark results [Lee98Local]

[Cheng98Redundant]
J.H.M. Lee, B.M.W. Cheng and J.C.K. Wu
Increasing Constraint Propagation by Redundant Modeling: an Experience Report
Constraints, 1998

[Lee98Local]
H.F. Leung, .H.M. Lee and H.W. Won
Performance of a Comprehensive and Efficient Constraint Library Based on Local Search
11th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1998

[CompConstraints96Posting]

comp.constraints posting
howpublished: http://www.cs.unh.edu/ccc/archive/constraints/archive/mystery-shopper-benchmark.txt