[Help-glpk] Meindl and Templ (2012) solver survey

[Robbie Morrison]

Hello all

  Meindl, Bernhard and Matthias Templ.  2012.
      Analysis of commercial and free and open
      source solvers for linear optimization
      problems.  Report.  23 February 2012.

download:
http://neon.vb.cbs.nl/casc/..%5Ccasc%5CESSNet2%5Cdeliverable_solverstudy.pdf

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annotated: Essnet Project on Common Tools and
Harmonized Methodologies for SDC in the ESS,
Deliverable D3, Subtask 10

abstract: In this contribution software tools that
can be used to solve (mixed integer) linear
optimization problems are described and compared.
These kind of problems occur for instance when
solving the secondary cell suppression problem
(CSP).

An overview of existing comparisons of both
open-source and commercial solvers is given.
Moreover, the performance of different solvers is
evaluated on the basis of solving multiple
attacker problems in a case study.  These problem
class is important when dealing with the CSP.

utilizes : GLPK 4.47

my summary : The author's primary interest is the
secondary cell suppression problem (CSP).  In
terms of open-source solvers, GLPK performs well
(p11).  But the proprietary solvers still
outperform the open-source solvers by a large
margin.

cheers, Robbie
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Robbie Morrison
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Technical University of Berlin (TU-Berlin), Germany
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