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Pyomo, an open-source optimization modeling system in Python

Optimization

Speaker: David Woodruff, UC Davis Graduate School of Management
Location: 3106 MSB
Start time: Tue, Feb 9 2010, 10:00AM

We describe Pyomo, an open source tool for modeling optimization applications in Python. Pyomo can be used to define symbolic problems, create concrete problem instances, and solve these instances with standard solvers. Pyomo provides a capability that is commonly associated with algebraic modeling languages such as AMPL, AIMMS, and GAMS, but Pyomo’s modeling objects are embedded within a full-featured high-level programming language with a rich set of supporting libraries. Pyomo leverages the capabilities of the Coopr software library, which integrates Python packages for defining optimizers, modeling optimization applications, and managing computational experiments.