Title: Computational Progress in Linear and Mixed Integer Programming
Speaker: Dr. Robert Bixby
Affiliation: Gurobi
Location: CPSE seminar room (C615 Roderic Hill)
Time: 11:00am

Abstract. We will look at the progress in linear and mixed-integer programming software over the last 25 years. As a result of this progress, modern linear programming codes are now capable of robustly and efficiently solving instances with multiple millions of variables and constraints. With these linear programming advances as a foundation, mixed-integer programming then provides the modeling framework and solution technology that enables the overwhelming majority of present-day business planning and scheduling applications, and is the key technology behind prescriptive analytics. The performance improvements in mixed-integer programming code overs the last 25 years have been nothing short of remarkable, well beyond those of linear programming and have transformed this technology into an out-of-the box tool with applications to an almost unlimited range of real-world problems.

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