Optimization at your fingertips
| “ | [...] a carefully designed application-program interface for Internet optimization services would do much to encourage development of client applications„- Fourer, Goux |
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You may have heard, that Gurobi has released the next version of their solver software. Today we released version 0.3.1062.0 of the Optimization.Framework which adds support for Gurobi 5.0. As always, you can get the latest version of the Optimization.Framework from the Nuget repository: http://nuget.org/packages/Optimization.Framework.
At APMOD 2012 conference in Paderborn there will be two workshops, one on the Optimization.Framework, which will be held by Jens Peter Kempkes and Lars Beckmann and one on Pyomo which will be held by Jean-Paul Watson and John Siirola. If you are interested in attending, use the links next to the title to register: [...]
The APMOD ‘Early Bird’ registration phase – just like the year 2011 – is coming to a close. If you register before December 31st, you get your delegate ticket for 300 Euros or your student (BA/MA only) ticket for 120 Euros. In both cases you are saving 80 Euros compared to the regular price. Below [...]
I’ve watched it several times (you probably too), but it’s still fun: http://boxcar2d.com/ Shows a demo of a genetic algorithm that builds and evaluates cars. Cool stuff. Watch the color of the parts changing, and get a deeper insight on the subpage “the algorithm”. Best, jp – orconomy.de
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 [...]
Dear readers, It is our pleasure to invite you submitting papers to the International Conference APMOD – APplied mathematical programming and MODelling The conference will take place in Paderborn during March 28-30, 2012 and is focused on but not limited to the following topics: Optimization methods and software Linear programming Mixed-integer programming Stochastic programming Modelling [...]
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 [...]
We are working on improving the Optimization Framework. Lately we were searching for a way to speed up the performance of the mps-importer. We had the idea that it could be worthwhile to change the construction of a HashSet or a Dictionary. How big would the difference be, creating a Dictionary knowing the final size [...]
