[Os-project-managers] Fwd: Re: Invitation to speak at Optimization Days, Montreal

[Horand Gassmann]

Sorry, guys; I meant to CC this to you, but I pushed the wrong button...

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     Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 22:53:32 -0300
     From: Horand Gassmann <Horand.Gassmann at Dal.Ca>
  Subject: Re: Invitation to speak at Optimization Days, Montreal
       To: Dominique Orban <dominique.orban at gerad.ca>

Hi Dominique,

sorry to be so late getting the abstract to you, but things have been  
super busy around here. I hope this has not inconvenienced you too  
much. Below please find my abstract for Optimization Days.

Presenter: H.I. Gassmann, Dalhousie University
Co-authors: R.K. Martin, University of Chicago
J. Ma, Northwestern University
Title: Optimization Services: Communicating solver options and solver results

Abstract:
Optimization Services (OS) is a framework that links algebraic  
modelling languages (AMLs) and solvers, developed as an open source  
project under the umbrella of COIN-OR. OS supports a variety of linear  
and nonlinear solvers, both open source and commercial. OS is  
web-aware, allowing for seemless integration of distributed computing  
environments and even cloud computing. Communication between algebraic  
modelling languages and solvers takes place through strings and files  
in standardized XML formats. I will give a brief overview of the  
system design and will then concentrate on describing the option and  
result formats in more detail. Unlike the instance description, there  
are challenges here to allow for both flexibility to cater to the  
varying design choices of solver developers, and rigidity to allow one  
AML to talk to multiple solvers without changing the interface.




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