[Linux-sohbet] [DMANET] DIMACS Workshop on COIN-OR (fwd)

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From: Mustafa Akgul (akgul@Bilkent.EDU.TR)
Date: Tue 11 Jul 2006 - 09:35:16 GMT


DIMACS Workshop on COIN-OR
  
  July 17 - 20, 2006
  DIMACS Center, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ

Organizers:

  Jonathan Eckstein, Rutgers University, jeckstei@rutcor.rutgers.edu
  Jeff Linderoth, Lehigh University, jtl3@lehigh.edu
  Robin Lougee-Heimer, IBM Research, robinlh@us.ibm.com
  Francois Margot, Carnegie Mellon University, fmargot@andrew.cmu.edu

This meeting is jointly sponsored by the Center for Discrete
Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS), and IBM
Research.
 
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COIN-OR (www.coin-or.org) is an initiative to promote open-source
software, standards, models, and data for operations research. More
than a dozen projects are hosted by COIN-OR, including linear and
integer programming solvers, frameworks for implementing branch, cut,
and price algorithms, libraries of cutting planes for mixed integer
programs, interior point solvers for nonlinear programs, tools for
derivative-free optimization, and interfaces for modeling stochastic
programs.

The goals of this workshop are to provide:

    * Hands-on tutorials for new users,
    * Forums for users, would-be users, and developers to exchange
      ideas and experiences,
    * Case-studies of research and business uses, and
    * Discussions on the future direction and shape of open-source in
      operations research.

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Monday, July 17, 2006

Welcome & Using COIN-OR Day

 8:45 - 9:30 Breakfast and Registration

 9:30 - 9:45 Welcome and Opening Remarks
               Mel Janowitz, DIMACS Associate Director
               Jeff Linderoth, Lehigh University and
               Jon Lee, IBM Research

 9:45 - 10:00 COIN-OR: The Computational Infrastructure for Operations Research
               Robin Lougee-Heimer, IBM Research

10:00 - 11:30 Getting & Building COIN-OR
               JP Fasano, IBM

11:30 - 12:30 Lunch

12:30 - 1:00 OSI: The Open Solver Interface
               Matthew Saltzman, Clemson University

 1:00 - 1:30 NLPAPI: A Subroutine Interface to Nonlinear Programming Problems
               Mike Henderson, IBM

 1:30 - 2:00 SMI: Stochastic Modeling Interface for COIN-OR
               Alan King, IBM

 2:00 - 2:30 Break

 2:30 - 5:00 Tutorial: COIN-OR LP Solver (CLP)
               John Forrest, IBM

               Tutorial: IPOPT
               Andreas Waechter, IBM

 5:00 - 6:00 Reception

Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Research Day
 
 8:30 - 9:00 Breakfast and Registration

 9:00 - 10:00 Mixed-Integer Rounding Inequalities for COIN-OR
               Joao Goncalves, IBM Research

 9:30 - 10:00 Tightening `Big M' Disjunctions
               Lou Hafer, Simon Fraser University

10:00 - 10:30 Break

10:30 - 11:00 Overview of the PEBBL and PICO Projects:
               Massively Parallel Branch and Bound
               Jonathan Eckstein, Rutgers University

11:00 - 11:30 Experience with CGL in the PICO Mixed-integer Programming Solver
               Cindy Phillips, Sandia National Laboratories

11:30 - 12:00 Optimizing PICO's CLP Interface
               Ojas Parekh, Emory University

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch

 1:00 - 1:30 Branch-and-Bound Algorithms for Solving the Quadratic Assignment
               Peter Hahn, University of Pennsylvania

 1:30 - 2:00 Automated Tuning of Solver Parameters
               Brady Hunsaker, University of Pittsburgh

 2:00 - 2:30 Break

 2:30 - 5:00 Tutorial: COIN-OR Branch and Cut (CBC)
               John Forrest, IBM

               Tutorial: Branch-Cut-Price (BCP) Framework
               Laszlo Ladanyi, IBM and Francois Margot, Carnegie Mellon University
 
 5:00 - 5:30 travel to restaurant

 5:30 - 9:00 Conference Dinner at Seven Hills

Wednesday, July 19, 2006

COIN-OR Projects Day

 8:30 - 9:00 Breakfast and Registration

 9:00 - 9:30 An Introduction by Example to Algorithmic Differentiation
               Brad Bell, University of Washington

 9:30 - 10:00 The Ongoing Development of CSDP
               Brian Borchers, New Mexico Tech

10:00 - 10:30 Break

10:30 - 12:00 An Open Interface for Hooking Solvers to Modeling Systems
               Jun Ma, Northwestern University
               Bob Fourer, Northwestern University
               Kipp Martin, University of Chicago

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch

 1:00 - 1:30 Web Services and COIN-OR
               Leo Lopes, University of Arizona

 1:30 - 2:00 Building a Tabu Search with the Java Engine OpenTS
               Rob Harder, USAF
                        
 2:00 - 2:30 CoinMP: Simple C-API Windows DLL implementation of CLP, CBC, and CGL
               Bjarni Kristjansson, Maximal Software

 2:30 - 3:00 Break

 3:00 - 5:30 Tutorial: Bonmin
               Pierre Bonami, Carnegie Mellon University

               Tutorial: Symphony
               Ted Ralphs, Lehigh University

 5:30 - 6:30 Panel: "Whine & Cheese" -- Open Issues

Thursday, July 20, 2006

Future Day

 8:30 - 9:00 Breakfast and Registration

 9:00 - 9:30 Challenges and Opportunities Generated by the Increasing
               Importance of Optimization in Supply Chain Management
               Chih-Hui Chang, IBM

 9:30 - 10:15 Panel: COIN-OR in Industry
               John Tomlin, Yahoo, moderator

10:15 - 10:30 Break

10:30 - 11:00 Cyber infrastructure: Initiatives at the National Science Foundation
               Stephen Nash, George Mason University

11:00 - 11:45 Panel: The Future of COIN-OR
               Mike Trick, Carniegie Mellon University, moderator

11:45 - 12:00 Closing Remarks
               Jeff Linderoth, Lehigh University

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Information on participation, registration, accomodations, and travel
can be found at:

  http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/COIN/

 
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