[Coin-announce] OpenTS Seminar, April 27 at 11AM in Yorktown Heights, NY

[Robin Lougee-Heimer]

April 27       Robert Harder
11:00 - 12:00  Civilian Personnel Policy Analyst, USAF
Rm 40-200      OpenTS, An Open Source Framework for Tabu Search

Tabu Search is a meta-strategy for guiding known heuristics past the traps
of
local optimality. Popularized by Glover in the early 90s, Tabu Search has
been
applied to integer programming problems involving scheduling, routing,
traveling
salesman and related problems.  In this talk, we present a framework for
Tabu
Search written in Java called "OpenTS," which enables researchers to
quickly
develop Tabu Search methodolgies.  OpenTS is available as open source
software,
and will soon appear under the COIN-OR intiative at http://www.coin-or.org

Seminar to be given at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights,
NY
For directions, see the IBM Watson homepage (http://www.watson.ibm.com/).
Please contact Robin Lougee-Heimer (robinlh at us.ibm.com or (914) 945-3032)
if you plan to attend and are not an IBM employee.


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Robin Lougee-Heimer
IBM TJ Watson Research Center
ph: 914-945-3032   fax: 914-945-3434
robinlh at us.ibm.com
http://www.coin-or.org