COIN-OR and Open-Source Events
Ninth INFORMS Computing Society (ICS) Conference 2005

Presentations, workshops, and user-group meetings on open-source software at the Ninth INFORMS Computing Society Conference 2005. To facilitate session hopping, all talks in a session are listed. The non-open-source talks in listed in grey.

The COIN-OR User Group Meeting will be held Thursday, January 6, 6:00pm to 7:00pm in Windjammer Room. The meeting announcement is slated to appear in the official program.

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Session WC03: Wednesday January 5, 01:30 - 3:00pm

Title: COIN-OR
Chair: Robin Lougee-Heimer
Presentations
  • Title: DECOMP: A Framework for Decomposition and Dynamic Cut Generation in Integer Programming
    Lead: Matthew Galati
    Co-author: Ted K. Ralphs

  • Title: Stochastic Modeling Interface
    Lead: Alan King

  • Title: How to Publish Your Code on COIN-OR
    Lead: Robin Lougee-Heimer
    Co-author: Matthew Saltzman

Session WD02: Wednesday January 5, 03:30 - 5:00pm

Title: Integer Programming
Chair: Jonathan Eckstein
Presentations
  • Title: Branch and Cut in the PICO MIP Solver
    Lead: Cynthia A. Phillips

  • Title: Discovering Classes of Valid Inequalities Using Automated Separation of Rank I CG Inequalities
    Lead: Brady Hunsaker
    Co-author: Craig A. Tovey

  • Title: Benders Cuts for Integer Programming Problems
    Lead: Yingyi Chu
    Co-author: Quanshi Xia

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  • Title: Rounding Hueristics and Ramp-Up Procedures for Parallel MIP
    Lead: Jonathan Eckstein
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Session WD03: Wednesday January 5, 03:30 - 5:00pm

Title: COIN-OR Mini Tutorials
Chair: Robin Lougee-Heimer
Tutorials
  • Title: Open Sover Interface Tutorial
    Lead: Matthew Saltzman
    Co-author: Laszlo Ladanyi

  • Title: The SYMPHONY Callable Library
    Lead: Ted K. Ralphs
    Co-author: Menal Guzelsoy

Session TA02: Thursday January 6, 08:30 - 10:00am

Title: Model Development
Chair: Gordon Bradley
Presentations
  • Title: Maple Global Optimization Toolbox
    Lead: Janos D. Pinter

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  • Title: ALPS: A Framework for Implementing Parallel Tree Search Algorithms
    Lead: Yan Xu
    Co-authors: Ted K. Ralphs, Laszlo Ladanyi, and Matthew J. Saltzman

  • Title: Network and Graph Markup Language (NaGML) - Data File Formats
    Lead: Gordon Bradley
    Co-author: Quanshi Xia
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Session TA05: Thursday January 6, 08:30 - 10:00am

Title: Solver Session I -- Integer/Combinatorial
Chair: Robert Fourer and Bjarni Kristjansson
Presentations
  • Title: KNITRO 4.0: A Comprehensive Software Package for Continuous Optimization
    Lead: Richard Waltz
    Co-authors: Jorge Nocedal, Richard Byrd, and Robert Fourer

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  • Title: C-WHIZ from KMS Optimization Products
    Lead: Joe Creegan
    Co-authors: Tom Dehne

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  • Title: The COIN-OR Stochastic Modeling Interface
    Lead: Alan King

Session TA06: Thursday January 6, 08:30 - 10:00am

Title: Information Sharing and Innovation on the Internet
Chair: Joseph P. Bailey
Presentations
  • Title: Learning, Ownership, and Innovation in Open-Source Communities
    Lead: Kislaya Prasad
    Co-author: Jayasri Dutta

  • Title: Weblogs as Dyanmic Value Models for Information
    Lead: Robin Burk

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  • Title: Contracting for Computing Resources from Anonymous Agents via the Internet
    Lead: John W. Mamer

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  • Title: Technology, Infrastructure: An Empirical Analysis of Internet Service Providers
    Lead: Joseph P. Bailey
    Co-author: Tobin Poterfield

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Session TB05: Thursday January 6, 08:30 - 10:00am

Title: Solver Session II -- Integer/Combinatorial
Chair: Robert Fourer and Bjarni Kristjansson
Presentations
  • Title: Computational Experience Solving Disjunctive Programming Problems with LOGMIP
    Lead: Ignacio E. Grossman
    Co-authors: Alex Meeraus, and Aldo Vecchietti

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  • Title: An Empirical Comparison of Branching Rules and Hueristic Methods in MINTO
    Lead: Kumar Abhishek
    Co-authors: Wasu Glankwamdee, and Jeff Linderoth

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  • Title: The SYMPHONY Callable Library for Mixed-Integer Linear Programming
    Lead: Ted K. Ralphs
    Co-author: Menal Guzelsoy

COIN-OR Users Group Meeting: Thursday January 6, 2004, 6:00-7:00 PM

Coordinator: Robin Lougee-Heimer
Location: Windjammer Room
Agenda: Report on progress, INFORMS hosting status, and Open Q & A time. If you would like to talk or propose a discussion item, send a post to the coin-discuss mailing list available at http://www.coin-or.org.

Session FA03: Friday January 8, 08:30 - 10:00am

Title: Network Services and Communication Standards
Chair: Robert Fourer and Bjarni Kristjansson
Presentations
  • Title: Linking GAMS to Solvers using the COIN-OR Open Solver Interface
    Lead: Stephen Dirkse
    Co-authors: Michael Bussieck

  • Title: A Unified XML-Based Framework for Optimization Services
    Lead: Jun Ma
    Co-authors: Robert Fourer and Kipp Martin

  • Title: Optimization in Distributed Applications: Provide Web-based Services with XML/SOAP
    Lead: Bjarni Kristjansson

  • Title: Challenges in Standardization and Integration of Modeling Systems in an Operational IT Environment
    Lead: Marcel