sci.op-research

Christian Plum wrote:

>
> I was not aware of the BCL API for dash, I hope then that it is
> possible to use the special features of Xpress-SP through BSL ?

It should be. (I've never used SP myself, but I'm sure Dash would make
the suite fully interoperable.) You use BCL to generate the model and
then hand off an instance to Xpress (or Xpress-SP as the case may be)
for solution. So you don't really use solver features through BCL,
although there are BCL statements you can use to set parameters for the
solver.
>
> Does any genuine stochastic optimizers exists ?

In my experience, most optimizers written by students as homework
assignments are pretty random. :-)

/Paul