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</span>In the past few weeks, we have learned Alps, and the example Knap
problem. </span></p>
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</span>Now we are going to develop our own IP problem-solving
algorithms.</span></p>
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</span>We have known that there are three components of CHiPPS. </span></p>
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</span>And our problem is a Binary IP model for
land-use allocation. </span></p>
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</span>Also we want to solve it using MPI-enabled
parallel tree search. So we chose CHiPPS. </span></p>
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</span>But we are wondering which component we should
select to implement our own tree search programs</span></p>
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</span>Could you give us some suggestions ?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Thanks!</span>