COIN-OR is pleased to announce COIN fORgery, a workshop to be held at the IMA (Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications) October 15-19, 2018 in Minneapolis, MN, USA. We welcome all members of the broader COIN-OR community to this workshop focused on the development of software in the COIN-OR repository of open source software for Operations Research. The goal is to bring together the community of existing and future developers, users, packagers, and other interested parties for a combination of tutorials, technical talks, and hands-on sessions leading to proposals for later intensive “coding sprints.” A running theme will be the future of COIN-OR and how to put it on a sustainable track. The focus of the workshop will be primarily on the tools in the COIN-OR Optimization Suite.
The general structure of the workshop will be to have tutorials and/or technical talks in the mornings, optional topical discussion at lunch for those who are interested, and hands-on breakout sessions in the afternoon. Each day will have a theme and will be lead by a different member of the COIN-OR community.
Overall Goals
- Give participants a good overall view of where COIN-OR is today, where work is needed, what the challenges are, and how they can contribute.
- Get participants quickly to hands-on exercises where they can make a contribution.
- “Energize the base” to continue participating and contributing post-workshop.
- Develop proposals for and organize teams for coding sprints.
- Develop strategies for long-term sustainability.
Target Audience
- End users/packagers/integrators, including those wanting to use our libraries and modelling tools.
- Current COIN-OR developers who want to learn more.
- Developers of new projects wanting to use our (build) tools.
- People interested in the internals of our tools so they can extend/improve them.
Daily Themes
- Monday: Intro, build system, development
- Tuesday: Documentation, unit testing, continuous integration
- Wednesday: Python integration
- Thursday: APIs, Generic interfaces
- Friday: Research challenges, sustainability, future plans
Organizers
- Matthias Koeppe, UC Davis
- Andrew Mason, University of Auckland
- Giacomo Nannicini, IBM
- Ted Ralphs, Lehigh University
- Matthew Saltzman, Clemson University
- John Siirola, Sandia National Labs
- Jean-Paul Watson, Sandia National Labs
For a list of participants, please see the IMA workshop site.
Tentative Schedule
(For the latest schedule, please see the IMA workshop site.)
Time | Morning | Lunch | Afternoon |
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Tutorials
Hands on with Github migration |
Tuesday | Tutorials
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Breakout Groups
Reports from breakout groups |
Wednesday | Tutorials
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Breakout groups
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Thursday |
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Breakout groups
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Friday |
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We are very grateful to the IMA for supporting this workshop both with their organisational expertise and also through some contributions towards accommodation and/or travel.