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Announcing Solver Foundation 2.0

Posted Thursday, October 08, 2009 10:25 AM by Nathan Brixius
I'm pleased to announce the release of Solver Foundation 2.0, available at solverfoundation.com . We've added capabilities that allow Solver Foundation to solve important categories of optimization problems, improved the performance and stability our Read More...
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Solver Foundation 2.0 Preview: F# ODSL

Posted Sunday, September 13, 2009 9:08 PM by Nathan Brixius
Lengning Liu has written a great post that highlights another exciting Solver Foundation 2.0 area: a Solver Foundation ODSL in F# . (F# is a functional programming language for .Net.) The ODSL provides an intuitive, cool way to express LP and MIP problems. Read More...
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Solver Foundation 2.0 Preview: Simulation and Stochastic Programming

Posted Thursday, September 03, 2009 9:28 AM by Nathan Brixius
I'm back from ISMP and helping to put the finishing touches on Solver Foundation 2.0. In our first version we introduced: our declarative modeling language OML; Solver Foundation Services, which provides a powerful, consistent .Net API for modeling and Read More...
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Int'l Symposium on Mathematical Programming, Day 2

Posted Thursday, August 27, 2009 8:22 PM by Nathan Brixius
Here are my notes from the second day of ISMP . ( Here are my day 1 notes. ) I spent the whole day going to IPM talks: Meszaros : Unfortunately I missed the plenary talk by Friedrich Eisenbrand due to microbrews. I attended an IPM session after that - Read More...
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Solver Foundation LINQ to SQL example

Posted Tuesday, June 02, 2009 7:45 AM by Nathan Brixius
Erwin, a modeling consultant and top Solver Foundation user, encountered some problems trying to do two-way data binding using DataTable objects. There are more details on this discussion thread . Ross, a member of the Solver Foundation team, was kind Read More...
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Creating parameterized Solver Foundation models using LINQ to SQL

Posted Tuesday, May 05, 2009 1:29 PM by Nathan Brixius
On the Solver Foundation MSDN forum there was a question about how to read model data from a DB and use it within a Solver Foundation model. In this post I will extend my production planning sample to use LINQ to SQL. To follow along at home you will Read More...
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Solver Foundation at INFORMS Practice Conference

Posted Wednesday, April 22, 2009 2:34 PM by Nathan Brixius
A few of us on the Solver Foundation team will be presenting at the INFORMS Practice Conference in Phoenix, Arizona. I'm looking forward to it! We have both a workshop and a session - I will also be participating in Gurobi's session to show off its integration Read More...
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Solver Foundation 1.2 released!

Posted Saturday, April 18, 2009 8:48 PM by Nathan Brixius
I am pleased to announce that Solver Foundation v1.2 is live on solverfoundation.com ! Our goal in 1.2 was to make a few key improvements to address feedback that we have received from partners and customers. If you have feedback, questions, suggestions…please Read More...
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Resource constrained scheduling; OML tutorials

Posted Tuesday, March 31, 2009 7:43 PM by Nathan Brixius
Two weeks back I posted two articles showing how easy it is to model critical path scheduling using Microsoft Solver Foundation . I received a few emails asking about various extensions; I will be covering those in upcoming posts. Julian just wrote a Read More...
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Project Scheduling using Solver Foundation

Posted Thursday, March 05, 2009 10:19 AM by Nathan Brixius
I'd like to work through a few examples of how to model real problems using Solver Foundation. If you download the Solver Foundation Express Edition , you can follow along: start Excel, click the Solver Foundation tab, then click on the Model button to Read More...
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