Optimization at your fingertips
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Today I got a surprise visit from Jochen, a student, who just finished his bachelor thesis at the group of Prof. Kundisch (Information Management and E-Finance). He had been using the Optimization.Framework in his thesis and wanted to say thank you for the Framework and a few hints I had given him. Not only did [...]
Today we released a new NuGet package, which allows you to use GLPK with the Optimization.Framework. The great thing about this package is that – it will also install the Optimization.Framework automatically – it will install the precompiled assemblies of GLPK – it configures the paths to the assemblies by changing your app.config file accordingly [...]
I did post this on G+ before, but I thought to share this with all non G+ users too: The other day, when a few people from our group had their coffee break together, they thought that it was a shame, that we OR people so far don’t have super heroes…and this is what we [...]
Here is how it works: Join our LinkedIn group before September 30th, which can be found here: APMOD2012 LinkedIn group Wait until you receive an EMail with a promotion code – you should find it in your inbox shortly after September 30th Whenever you decide to register for APMOD2012 provide the promotion code and get [...]
Gurobi released a new version of their solver software. Highlights include: Substantial performance improvements in our MIP and Barrier solvers: A 31% improvement in overall MIP performance, with a 75 % improvement on models that take more than 100 seconds to solve. A 14% improvement in overall barrier performance, with a 23 % improvement on [...]
In our first tutorial we explain how you can use the framework in order to build a sudoku solver. To download the source code click here To see the source code click read the full article. Credits to my brother Nils, who cut this video for me. I know this is a lot of work, [...]
You can now request features and submit bug reports to the Optimization.Framework project at http://youtrack.optimizationzen.com The screenshot shows how to do that:
We just released our Optimization.Framework, which lets you formulate mathematical models in C# and use a number (in the current release we have interfaces to Gurobi and Cplex) of solvers to solve them. In the next weeks we will post a few “Howto” screencasts in which we will demonstrate how we think our framework is [...]
