[Coin-discuss] LP Standards discussion

[Leo Lopes]

Dear Colleagues:

We (Robert Fourer, Leo Lopes, and Kipp Martin) have formed an
OASIS Discussion List.  The purpose of this Discussion List is to
prepare a charter for the formation of an OASIS Technical
Committee. The goal of the Technical Committee is to develop an
XML based standard for representing instances of mathematical
optimization problems.

An initial proposed standard for representing linear and integer
programming instances developed by Robert Fourer, Leo Lopes, and
Kipp Martin is LPFML (see
http://gsbkip.uchicago.edu/fml/fml.html). However, an open forum
for discussion, modification, and enhancement of a standard is
needed. It is important that all interested members of the
operations research community have an opportunity for systematic
input in developing this standard.

The purpose of the Discussion List is to agree on the charter for
a Technical Committee. The Discussion List is not for discussing
the technical details of a standard.

I will post more information to the Discussion List in several
days.

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Thank you,
Leo.