Workshops
Workshops During OR2019
As every year the scientific program of the OR2019 conference is supplemented by several workshops. Participation is free of charge for all registered conference participants.
| OPTANO | GAMS | |
| FICO | Gurobi |
OR in Industry and Consulting - Report on our experience in practical projects
Thursday, September 5, starting at 17:15 in Room POT/151 (OPTANO, Dr. Jens Peter Kempkes)
OR has yet to find its way into all corporations. OR experts face a vast field of tasks and challenges. We, as an internationally active company, have been working with renowned companies - many in the field of technology - and been deploying OR-based optimization methods in industry and consulting for the last 10 years. The OPTANO mission: more OR and decision-making for projects, teams and processes! In our lecture we will show you how OR projects work in practice, which tasks we as OR experts assume and why they fascinate us.
Deploying GAMS models with GAMS MIRO
Tuesday, September 3, starting at 15:30 in Room POT/051 (GAMS Software GmbH, Lutz Westermann)
Are you a modeling expert and would like to run your GAMS program from within a web browser, being able to visualize input and output data? Or an enterprise that requires a graphical user interface so that their planners can work more productively, leveraging the full potential optimization brings?
During this tutorial, we will introduce GAMS MIRO, a web interface for your GAMS models. We will start explaining the fundamental concepts of GAMS and the advantages of using GAMS to build optimization-based decision support applications. We will continue with the various options to connect GAMS models to other application and briefly cover some recent developments.
The central part of the tutorial will be about GAMS MIRO. It has tight connections to the GAMS modeling system that allow you to perform data manipulation, scenario management, graphical evaluation of the results and much more from within the web browser by adding very few annotations to your model. You specify which input and output datasets you want to visualize, and the result is a fully functional GUI that can be launched directly from the new GAMS Studio or via a shortcut on your Desktop. GAMS MIRO also facilitates the generation, organization, and sensitivity analysis of multiple scenarios of an optimization model. A server version will support features as managing multiple optimization models for concurrent users with access management, load balancing, batch configuration and much more.
Tutorial: Developing and deploying optimization apps with FICO Xpress
Tuesday, September 3, starting at 15:00 in Room POT/151 (FICO, Susanne Heipcke)
This tutorial will start with a brief introduction to formulating optimization models with Xpress Mosel. We show how to access data from various common types of data sources and work with different problem types including LP, MIP, NLP, and Robust Optimization.
As a second step, the participants will be able to experiment with the deployment of optimization models as a web app using Xpress Insight. They will be guided through the configuration of views in Xpress Insight and learn how to debug such applications using the development environment Xpress Workbench.
Participants who wish to go through the exercises during the tutorial are invited to download and install the FREE Xpress Community Edition of Xpress (Windows and macOS) and Xpress Insight (Windows only) prior to this event from our download page: http://content.fico.com/xpress-optimization-community-license.
You can register for this event by sending an email to . Registration is open until August 31st.
Gurobi Crash Course - What's Cool & What's New - A 360 degree look of Gurobi
Tuesday, September 3, starting at 15:30 in Room POT/251 (Gurobi, Dr. Kostja Siefen)
More than 2,400 companies in over 40 industries turn data into smarter decisions with Gurobi. Gurobi is a state-of-the-art mathematical programming solver designed from the ground up to exploit modern architectures and multi-core processors, using the most advanced implementations of the latest optimization algorithms.
This year, Gurobi will celebrate its 10th birthday and our next major release will add a number of innovative new features that are not available in any commercial, industry-tested solver of this kind. A good opportunity to take a look around the product and see what's up next. We will walk you through the latest release of our Python API, look at non-linear model types and provide an in-depth look at various product features.
In a nutshell: In this 2 hour workshop, we will bring you up-to-date with all the latest developments around the Gurobi Optimizer. You will receive an exclusive preview of the upcoming release and have the ability to personally interact with our technical and development team.