[Coin-discuss] [BCP] Manual

[Ted Ralphs]

Stephan,

My apologies for the outdated documentation. This is a problem 
throughout the repository. Since we are all working on a volunteer basis 
and have to carefully justify the time we devote to this project, it's 
difficult to keep up. A further complicating factor is that we are 
currently devoting much of our energies to creating a non-profit 
corporation so that we can move hosting from IBM to INFORMS, giving us 
more flexibility and the ability to begin raising money that could to 
fund such things as improved documentation in the future. Please be 
assured that better documentation is on the list on things to do, but it 
may be a while. In the meantime, I would be happy to patch the manual 
with any fixes you'd be willing to write and submit. In theory, the 
purpose of open source documentation is to allow the user community to 
improve it.

In the meantime, I suggest you take advantage of other resources, such 
as the slides I put together for the COIN tutorial at the most recent 
ISMP and the COIN tutorial page at Lehigh (sagan.ie.lehigh.edu/coin). In 
particular, Matt Galati put a lot of effort into creating a simple 
example of how to do column generation in BCP. All of these are 
accessible from the links on the COIN web page under resources. Thanks 
for your patience.

Best regards,

Ted
-- 
Dr. Ted Ralphs
Assistant Professor
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Lehigh University
(610)758-4784
tkralphs at lehigh.edu
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