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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">If the NLP relaxation of the MINLP is convex, you can use what you described to write a basic MINLP solver. To make it efficient, may need write many code.
Here is a website collecting some information about MINLP<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.gamsworld.org/minlp/solvers.htm">http://www.gamsworld.org/minlp/solvers.htm</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hopes this helps.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">-Yan Xu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> chipps-bounces@list.coin-or.org [mailto:chipps-bounces@list.coin-or.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>??<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 2012</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:10.0pt">Äê</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">5</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:10.0pt">ÔÂ</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">23</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:10.0pt">ÈÕ</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">
3:02 </span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:10.0pt">ÉÏÎç</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><br>
<b>To:</b> chipps@list.coin-or.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [CHiPPS] Advice for implementing a parallel MINLP using BB tree search<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear professors,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> I have just started to learn chipps. And I found that BLIS is programmed to solve MILP in parallel. According to my understanding, in order to build a parallel MINLP solver I just need to change lp solver to NLP solver without modifying
the source code of Alps and Bcps. Am I correct? <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> From where should I start first to implement a parallel MINLP solver using chipps? <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> Thanks!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right">Zhou Kai<o:p></o:p></p>
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