[Coin-discuss] Fwd: Timetabling, MILP and getting started

[Stuart Mitchell (uni)]

Fwd'd as I forgot to send the original to the list, note that pulp
also comes with windows and linux binaries for cbc.

Stu


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Stuart Mitchell <stu at stuartmitchell.com>
Date: Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 10:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Coin-discuss] Timetabling, MILP and getting started
To: Reaan Botha <reaanb at gmail.com>


Sorry for the shameless plug but I have to recommend pulp
http://packages.python.org/PuLP/
http://www.coin-or.org/projects/PuLP.xml

If you need the column generation bits migrate your pulp problem to
Dippy https://projects.coin-or.org/CoinBazaar/wiki/Projects/Dippy.

Stu

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Reaan Botha <reaanb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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