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Army Goes Bowling

Nov 21, 2017 GAMS Applications
The announcement that the US Military Academy’s football team, the Army West Point Black Knights, had received a bid to the Armed Forces Bowl on 23 Dec was good news for the team and its fans and supporters everywhere, but it posed a problem for those tasked with scheduling the Term End Exams at the Academy.
Scaling

Aug 14, 2017 Tips McCarl Newsletter
Sometimes models do odd things like reporting problems as infeasible, stuck or falsely optimal when scaling is the real issue. To avoid this or correct such issues it is often desirable to check scaling and in turn rescale the model or ask the solvers to employ more aggressive scaling. In terms of solver scaling most LP/MIP solvers do automatic scaling and a number have the option to apply a more aggressive scaling to numerically difficult models, e.
Misbehaving Model – Infeasible

Jul 27, 2017 Tips McCarl Newsletter
I was talking to the GAMS staff and they informed me as to what their most common supportcalls involve. One of them involves fixing bad results. In this and the next couple of newsletters. I will cover how to diagnose problems within models that don’t work right. Also in the next section I will cover an integer programming issue that commonly comes up.

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Authors

Aileen Boehme

Adam Christensen

Bruce McCarl

Clemens Westphal

Evangelos Panos

Fred Fiand

Freddy Proske

George Franco

Leonard Kunz

Lutz Westermann

Marius Bützler

Michael Bussieck

Renke Kuhlmann

Robin Schuchmann

Steve Dirkse

Stefan Mann