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Re: Re: Implementation of Minimize for integer programming

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  • Subject: [mg96137] Re: [mg96123] Re: Implementation of Minimize for integer programming
  • From: DrMajorBob <btreat1 at austin.rr.com>
  • Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 04:13:07 -0500 (EST)
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  • Reply-to: drmajorbob at longhorns.com

OTOH hand, you get integers "for free" in network flow problems with  
bipartite graphs (when they have integer sources, sinks, and arc limits).  
Many LPs can be cast in this way,

Bobby

On Thu, 05 Feb 2009 03:42:21 -0600, Roman <rschmied at gmail.com> wrote:

> Niko,
>
> as any book on linear or integer programming will tell you, integer
> programming is NP-hard. As a result, any implementation will be "dead
> slow", including Mathematica and GLPK. As far as I know there's
> nothing you can do unless your problem can be simplified or relaxed to
> a linear program.
>
> Roman.
>
>
> On Feb 4, 11:37 am, Niko <niko.schw... at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Hello, I'm using Minimize to solve an integer program. It is =85 dead
>> slow. So, this is research - is it slow because of the implementation
>> of Minimize? Is it worth it to feed the instance into GLPK? It took me
>> ages to write a formalization that Mathematica 7 accepted.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Niko
>
>



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