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<div>Reaan:</div>
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<div>IMHO, you should start with CBC. Symphony and BLiS are more interesting if you want to start developing a custom solver.</div>
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<div>Also, you might be interested in using the Python modeling tools in PuLP or Coopr to formulate MIP models that CBC can optimize.</div>
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<div>--Bill</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Reaan Botha <<a href="mailto:reaanb@gmail.com">reaanb@gmail.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:34:54 +0200<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span><<a href="mailto:coin-discuss@list.coin-or.org">coin-discuss@list.coin-or.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>[Coin-discuss] Timetabling, MILP and getting started<br>
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Hi guys
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<div>I want to attempt to solve school timetabling and student clustering problems using an MILP solver (I'm using <a href="http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/student-theses/2011-0622-200347/ZelissenCMA2009.pdf">http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/student-theses/2011-0622-200347/ZelissenCMA2009.pdf</a>
for direction). My background is in garbage-collected languages and some search algorithms, so I'm very much out of my comfort zone here.</div>
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<div>Which COIN_OR project should I be looking at? I managed to set up and build CBC in VS2010, but should I be looking at COIN_MP or SYMPHONY or BLiS or something else instead?</div>
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<div>Reaan</div>
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