Course Material for ODS18: Software, Slides, Exercises, Solutions

• AMPL Binaries for the Course
  • Linux 64-bit Intel
  • MacOSX 64-bit
  • 64-bit Windows

• Other AMPL Solvers (open-source)
  • COIN-OR Solvers including MILP, NLP, global
  • Argonne's MINOTAUR Solver (incl binaries for Linux/MacOS

• Background on the AMPL Modeling Language
  • Chapters of the AMPL Book
  • AMPL mode for emacs or vim, GitHub repo
  • Post your questions to the AMPL Modeling Language newsgroup: ampl -at- googlegroups.com see also groups.google.com/group/ampl

• Lectures
  • Lecture 1: Modeling with Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Optimization
  • Lecture 2: Methods for Convex Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Optimization I
  • Lecture 3: Methods for Convex Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Optimization II
  • Lecture 4: Methods for Nonconvex Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Optimization

• Exercises
  • MINLP Exercises

• AMPL Models
  • Gear-trans design problem: geartrain.mod