From cameron.afzal at gmail.com Wed Jul 8 15:13:27 2026 From: cameron.afzal at gmail.com (Cameron Afzal) Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2026 12:13:27 -0700 Subject: [Coin-announce] New COIN-OR project: Frontier, multi-objective decision optimization through AI agents Message-ID: Hi COIN-OR community, I'm pleased to announce Frontier, newly added to the COIN-OR repository: an open-source toolkit for multi-objective decision optimization, driven in n atural language through an AI agent. Frontier exposes an optimization engine as an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server with skills, so an AI assistant can translate a decision described in business terms ? which projects to fund, how to split a budget, whom to source from ? into a model, solve it, and explain tradeoffs. Under the hood it maps the Pareto frontier with pymoo's NSGA-II/III, then optionally certifies the finalists against an exact solver ? HiGHS on CPU or NVIDIA cuOpt on GPU ? to a measured optimality gap. The heuristic explores broadly; the exact solver proves what you would commit to as you refine the formulation. In spirit it is an interface project: where PuLP made solvers usable from Python, Frontier aims to make multi-objective optimization usable through agents ? including the COIN-OR-hosted cuOpt and HiGHS it drives as exact backends. - COIN-OR repository: https://github.com/coin-or/frontier - Development and issues: https://github.com/cafzal/frontier - License: Apache 2.0 Feedback and contributions are welcome via the development repository. Best regards, Cameron Afzal -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bbozkaya at coin-or.org Mon Jul 13 17:48:25 2026 From: bbozkaya at coin-or.org (Burcin Bozkaya) Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:48:25 +0000 Subject: [Coin-announce] CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: 22nd COIN-OR Cup Message-ID: CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: 22nd annual "COIN-OR Cup" competition sponsored by the COIN-OR Foundation The COIN-OR Cup recognizes outstanding contributions to the development and/or use of open-source operations research software associated with the COIN-OR software collection. We invite you to nominate or submit an open-source project, either as a new contribution to the COIN-OR collection or as an application of an existing COIN-OR project in a real-world setting. COIN-OR stands for "COmputational INfrastructure for Operations Research." We value the development and use of free, open-source operations research software made available to the optimization community through an easy-to-access repository. For more details, visit https://www.coin-or.org and https://github.com/coin-or. GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSIONS: A submission or nomination must include: 1. A synopsis of an effective use of COIN-OR project(s), a valuable contribution to the COIN-OR collection, or both, including an explanation of its significance. The synopsis must be no more than 3 pages in PDF format. 2. Copies of relevant papers or documents in PDF format. We especially encourage nominations that describe effective uses of COIN-OR that may not be widely known in the community. 3. A submission of this Google form: Nominations for the 2026 COIN-OR Cup Competition Please also note: * Self-nominations are welcome and encouraged. * Submission deadline: Wednesday, September 15th, 2026, 11:59pm ET. * Please email your submission to coin-cup-2026 at coin-or.org as a single zipped archive containing a description of the submission and copies of all relevant papers or documents in PDF format. * The winner will be announced and celebrated during the INFORMS Annual Meeting in San Francisco, November 1?4, 2026. Committee members: Burcin Bozkaya (chair), Haihao Lu, Stefan Vigerske. Thank you, Burcin Bozkaya, Ph.D. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: