RE: [Help-glpk] restarting GLPK with dual simplex

[Meketon, Marc]

Is there any interaction between presolve and restarting with the dual?
I set the presolve "on" before the first call to the simplex method.

-Marc Meketon

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Makhorin [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 17:41
To: Meketon, Marc
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [Help-glpk] restarting GLPK with dual simplex

> I'm trying to solve an MIP using the following heuristic.
> 
> I solve the LP relaxation (using Simplex - primal).  GLPK finds the
> optimal solution.
> 
> Then I set the lower bounds on some of the variables to a positive
> integer.  For example, if the solution from the simplex says that x[1]
=
> 3.95, I might change the lower bound of x[1] from 0 to 4.0.  A bunch
of
> problem-specific logic is used in this step, but the only changes are
to
> lower bounds.
> 
> Then I want to resolve using the dual simplex method, since in theory
> changing a lower bound will keep the current dual solution feasible.
> 
> However, doing so, it seems like GLPK does not restart with a dual
> feasible solution.
> 
> To paraphrase the above, I'm setting up the model, then issuing the
> following code (simplified from my actual code), using the VB
interface.
> 
>   retVal = glpk_simplex(lp)                   ' runs primal simplex
>   glpk_set_col_bnds lp, 1, GLPK_LO, 4.0, 0.0  ' change a lower bound
>   
>   glpk_set_int_parm lp, GLPK_K_DUAL,1         ' set to dual
>   retVal = glpk_simplex(lp)                   ' restart
> 
> GLPK doesn't seem to restart with dual feasible solution.
> 
> I'm probably not using GLPK correctly.  Can anyone help?

Your call sequence is correct at least if it were written in C.
Looks like something wrong in the vb interface in the sense that
glpk_simplex is not equivalent to the original glp_simplex. To say
what namely is wrong I need to see the complete screen output.


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