[Coin-announce] A new solver for MINLP in COIN-OR

[Pierre Bonami]

We are pleased to announce the availability of a new project in COIN-OR:

Bonmin (Basic Open-source Nonlinear Mixed INteger programming) is an 
experimental open-source C++ code for solving or finding good solutions 
to mixed integer nonlinear programs. Bonmin uses other COIN-OR packages 
as building blocks: Cbc, Clp, Cgl, Osi and Ipopt.  It comes with an 
interface to be used from AMPL, and can be called from C++ code.

Bonmin is one of the results of a collaboration which took place during 
the last two years between researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and 
IBM. Although still experimental, Bonmin has been tested on a relatively 
large library of problems, and we hope it can solve MINLPs of medium 
size quite well.

The project Trac page with all information for download and installation 
is located here:
http://projects.coin-or.org/Bonmin

A User's Manual can be found here:
https://projects.coin-or.org/Bonmin/browser/trunk/Bonmin/doc/BONMIN_UsersManual.pdf?format=raw

and there is also a mailing list:
http://list.coin-or.org/mailman/listinfo/Bonmin

For more on the joint IBM-CMU open source MINLP project:
http://egon.cheme.cmu.edu/ibm/page.htm

Pierre Bonami,
PostDoc, Carnegie Mellon University
Project manager for Bonmin