[Coin-discuss] Timetabling, MILP and getting started

[Hart, William E]

Reaan:

IMHO, you should start with CBC.  Symphony and BLiS are more interesting if you want to start developing a custom solver.

Also, you might be interested in using the Python modeling tools in PuLP or Coopr to formulate MIP models that CBC can optimize.

--Bill


From: Reaan Botha <reaanb at gmail.com<mailto:reaanb at gmail.com>>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:34:54 +0200
To: <coin-discuss at list.coin-or.org<mailto:coin-discuss at list.coin-or.org>>
Subject: [Coin-discuss] Timetabling, MILP and getting started

Hi guys

I want to attempt to solve school timetabling and student clustering problems using an MILP solver (I'm using http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/student-theses/2011-0622-200347/ZelissenCMA2009.pdf for direction).  My background is in garbage-collected languages and some search algorithms, so I'm very much out of my comfort zone here.

Which COIN_OR project should I be looking at?  I managed to set up and build CBC in VS2010, but should I be looking at COIN_MP or SYMPHONY or BLiS or something else instead?

Reaan
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