On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, David Stephenson wrote:
I'm just in the process of exploring how to use GLPK for MIPs and was wondering if there is a simple way to do either of the following:
1. Setting the optimality threshold for early termination. (E.g., terminate when best recorded feasible is within 5% of optimal)
Yes, but it wasn't intended for that. In the distributed version you can set the parameter, but its upper bound is only .1%. You'll have to edit the code to set a higher value. You might get somewhat the same effect by adding a constant term to the objective function.
2. Specify a feasible integer solution for use in fathoming branches.
No, but you can get about the same result by adding a constraint.
Also, does GLPK implement any sort of cutting plane methodology?
Yes, but I don't remember how to use it.
The IOS (Integer Optimization Suite) part of GLPK has this capability. I don't believe it appears in the documentation yet. You can see the functions in the file glpios.h. I don't think there are specific cuts implemented in IOS, yet, however, so you'd have to implement them yourself for now.
I do believe that cuts are on the horizon for GLPK, though.
Brady
-- Brady Hunsaker Assistant Professor Industrial Engineering University of Pittsburgh http://www.engr.pitt.edu/hunsaker/
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