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 |
From the category archives:
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.
We had a few requests for a forum where people can ask questions about the Optimization.Framework recently, so here it is: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/optimizationframework-forum. Lars
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’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
From the Faculty Research Awards program site: The purpose of this program is to facilitate more interaction between Google and academia and also nurture stronger relations and partnerships with universities. The intent of the awards program is to support academic research aimed at improving information access (defined broadly). When we read this we thought “improving [...]
This is a small sample application, which demonstrates how a real life optimization problem can be solved using web (and) service technologies. Consider the following: You have been on a vacation with 5 friends. During that time you spent money on all sorts of things and sometimes you have paid for (some of) your mates [...]
We made this little testbench that allows you to quickly evaluate OML models on our Cluster. It will return the results as a simple string, when you click on “Optimize”. Please upgrade your browser
Well, I am kind of late with this, but I just found this feature and found it cool that Google integrated a mini version of a linear solver in Spreadsheets. You can use it when you open a new Spreadsheet and click on Tools->Solve. Everything from there is pretty much self-explanatory. In the example below [...]
