------------------------------------------------------------ To: Robbie Morrison <[email protected]>, GLPK help Subject: Re: [Help-glpk] Podhradsky (2010) review of optimization From: Nigel Galloway <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 06:23:34 -0800 ------------------------------------------------------------
> Robbie, > > Are you telling me that an electrical engineer, to > be, should or should not base his thesis on a > comparison of modelling languages? [snip] Hi Nigel You make some interesting observations. First, just let me say that I have no connection with this work, nor anybody involved with it, nor the institution. I found the thesis using google. I did also notice some naive comments that should have been picked up by an observant supervisor. Moreover, many of the conclusions, as you point out, are difficult to justify. The interesting thing for me was not the discussion, but the attempt to code up the same problem using different high level languages and then establish some comparative metrics. It is also worth pointing out that the difference between bachelor, masters, and doctoral level work is marked. It is also worth noting the more than occasional tensions that exist between domain experts, programmers, operations researchers, and mathematicians .. as we variously, and perhaps unwittingly, stray into each other's fields and completely mess up. I think that is about as far off-topic as I wish to go. best wishes all, Robbie --- Robbie Morrison PhD student -- policy-oriented energy system simulation Institute for Energy Engineering (IET) Technical University of Berlin (TU-Berlin), Germany University email (redirected) : [email protected] Webmail (preferred) : [email protected] [from Webmail client] _______________________________________________ Help-glpk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-glpk
