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E5 - Discrete Optimization Solver

Discrete Optimization Solver is a software package for integer programming problems, especially for nonlinear integer programming (NLIP) problems. This software consists of two parts:
Part (A) takes advantage of the special structure of the separable NLIP problem, makes use of some innovational nonlinear Lagrangian theories and thus enabling us to find exact optimal solution to the large-scale separable NLIP problem in an instant.
Part (B) adopts some innovational global optimization technologies and thus facilitating us to find optimal solution to the large-scale general NLIP problem.

Applications

  • Airline scheduling
  • Business and stock forecasting
  • Capital budgeting
  • Combinatorics
  • Communication and transportation networks
  • Database design and management
  • Financial resource allocation
  • Logistics and supply chain management

Features

  • Ability to find exact optimal solution to large-scale separable NLIP problems with up to 5000 integer variables for which no existing software packages are able to solve.
  • Ability to generate upper bound and lower bound for the optimal value at each iteration.
  • Ability to find optimal solution to general large-scale NLIP problems with up to 100 integer variables for which no existing software packages are able to solve.
  • Ability to move from one local optimal solution to a better one at each iteration.

Website
http://www.se.cuhk.edu.hk/~nlip

Principal Investigator
Prof. Duan Li
Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management

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