sci.op-research

On 13 Feb., 17:15, Paul Rubin wrote:
> 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. =A0(I've never used SP myself, but I'm sure Dash would make
> the suite fully interoperable.) =A0You use BCL to generate the model and
> then hand off an instance to Xpress (or Xpress-SP as the case may be)
> for solution. =A0So 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. =A0:-)

Hehe, ; )

>
> /Paul