Editorial
Lloyd Clarke
Product Manager
ILOG CPLEX
Companies around the globe are winning back time and money with ILOG CPLEX, the powerhouse behind ILOG’s Optimization Decision Management System (ODMS).
Today, over 1,000
corporations and government agencies – including more than 100 of the world’s leading software companies – and over 500 universities use ILOG CPLEX. Still unmatched, ILOG CPLEX’s mathematical optimization technology can solve planning and scheduling problems in virtually every industry, enabling far greater resource utilization.
In addition to ILOG CPLEX, ILOG ODMS includes ILOG OPL Development Studio for model development and ILOG Optimization Decision Manager for deploying decision-support applications.
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ILOG OPL Development Studio
works directly with ILOG CPLEX
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ILOG CPLEX 10.0
Get optimal faster
Just released, ILOG CPLEX 10.0 provides several highly anticipated performance enhancements that shorten time to optimality by an average of 35 percent, and for a particularly challenging set of discrete optimization models, by an average of 70 percent.
But what really sets ILOG CPLEX 10.0 apart is the new Solution Polishing function. It can be applied to derive one or more improved solutions from a feasible solution that has not been proven optimal.
For a set of particularly difficult benchmark models, one minute of Solution Polishing was able to improve the best solutions found in a 10-minute run on 90 percent of the models.
Other new features
ILOG CPLEX 10.0 comes with many new improvements:
- Conflict Refiner – Identifies conflicting constraints and bounds within the model to help the user identify the reasons for the infeasibility
- Indicator Constraint – Allows a binary variable to control whether a specified linear constraint is active, providing more accurate solutions
- MIP Starts – Advanced restart capabilities have been improved to utilize initial, partial or partially correct solutions
- Java Serialization – Better support for J2EE enables users to serialize modeling objects
Learn more at http://cplex.ilog.com.
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