<br><font size=2 face="Helvetica">Dear SMI Community:</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Helvetica">The upcoming DIMCAS Workshop on COIN-OR
(http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/COIN/) is your chance to hold
a face-to-face working meeting. Thanks to some generous funding, opportunities
for travel support exist - but you need to act fast. </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Helvetica">Alan King will be attending, along with
more than 50 people interested in the open-source projects hosted by COIN-OR.
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<br><font size=2 face="Helvetica">Hope to see you there,</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Helvetica">Robin</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Helvetica">Title: </font><font size=2 face="Arial"><b><i>SMI:
Stochastic Modeling Interface for COIN-OR</i></b></font>
<br><font size=2 face="Helvetica">Speaker: Alan King, kingaj@coin-or.org</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Helvetica">Abstract: The </font><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Stochastic
Modeling Interface is a COIN-OR project that enables modelers to incorporate
stochastic information into optimization models. The Stochastic Modeling
Interfaces is built entirely from COIN-OR native components (e.g., OSI,
CLP, coin-utilities). In this talk, w</font><font size=2 face="Arial">e
discuss the progress on architecting and implementing a modeling interface
for stochastic programming in the COIN system.</font>
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Robin Lougee-Heimer<br>
IBM TJ Watson Research Center<br>
1101 Kitchawan Road, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598<br>
ph: 914-945-3032 fax: 914-945-3434 <br>
robinlh@us.ibm.com<br>
http://www.coin-or.org<br>
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