[Cops] New Releases for the COPS Suite

[Ted Ralphs]

COPS is the COIN-OR Open Parallel Search Framework, a suite of tools for 
implementing parallel algorithms based on tree search. The current COPS 
suite consists of three libraries and associated sample applications:

* The Abstract Library for Parallel Search (ALPS) is the base layer of a 
hierarchy consisting of implementations of various tree search 
algorithms for specific problem types.

* The Branch, Constrain, and Price Software (BiCePS) is a data 
management layer built on top of ALPS for implementing relaxation-based 
branch and bound algorithms.

* The BiCePS Linear Integer Solver (BLIS) is a concretization of the 
BiCePS layer for solving mixed-integer linear programs.

There are new stable versions and releases of all three of these libraries.

ALPS: 1.0.0
BiCePS: 0.9.0
BLIS: 0.9.0

These releases are major upgrades to previous versions. All three 
libraries are now fairly stable, though still not well-documented. For 
more information on the suite, please visit

https://projects.coin-or.org/Cops

Cheers,

Ted
-- 
Dr. Ted Ralphs
Associate Professor
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Lehigh University
(610)758-4784
ted at lehigh dot edu
www.lehigh.edu/~tkr2