Hi,

It seems that your model is mixed interger programming. If it has 100K
decision variables, I doubt that this can be solved in a reasonable time.

Have you ever solved the same size linear programming models by GLPK ? How
about the performance ?

Best Regards,


On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 5:35 AM, john tass <[email protected]> wrote:

> Good morning to everyone,
> I have a question which may be too simple to answer. Nevertheless I am not
> quite sure how to proceed.
> I intend to use GLPK within an ANSI C application and I want to use the
> API of GLPK.
> The model I want to solve is too large as far as its size is concerned,
> i.e. it contains a large number of decision variables. For instance, I have
> to use the binary variables Xtcpd, where t, c, p, d are indices, t =
> 1,...,100, c = 1,...,30, p = 1,...7, d = 1,..,5. So far, the number of
> Xtcpd variables is obviously 100*30*7*5 = 105000. In addition, I need to
> use an extra large amount of auxiliary variables, and a large number of
> constraints.
> The question is how to create the names of all these variables and the
> names of all these constraints. Obviously, I can not create all these names
> in a hard coded fashion. Perhaps I can make use of matrices (?). An if so,
> how exactly shall I write the code?
> Any answer will be very appreciated.
>
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> Ioannis X. Tassopoulos
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