OR/MS Today, June 2009

Linear Programming Survey
Table 10



Product

Formulations Supported (continued)

Constraint and Objective Types
Convex Quadratic Objective 2nd-order Cone General Convex General Nonlinear Other
AIMMS, the modeling system y   y y Indicator contraints, lazy constraints
AMPL y   y y complementarity, logical
BendX Stochastic Solver          
C-WHIZ          
CBC          
CLP          
CoinMP          
DATAFORM          
FICO Xpress y   y y Indicator, Logical
flopc++          
Frontier Analyst         Supports a variety of data envelopment analysis models
GAMS y y y y mixed integer nonlinear, mixed complementarity
GENO y y y y Procedural and logical constraints and/or objectives
GIPALS - Linear Programming Environment          
GIPALS32 - Linear Programming Library          
GLPK (GNU Linear Programming Kit)          
GUROBI          
IBM ILOG CPLEX y y     indicator constraints
IBM ILOG OPL Development Studio y y     Logical constraints (e.g. AND, OR, IF-THEN), , cumul function, step function
KNITRO Solver 6.0 y y y y Mixed-Integer Programming (MIPs), in particular convex mixed integer nonlinear problems (MINLP); Nonlinear Regression; Complementarity Constraints (MPCCs or MPECs)
Lamps y        
LINDO API y y y y Nonsmooth, nonconvex functions via Global solver
LINGO y   y y Nonsmooth, nonconvex functions via Global solver
LOQO y y y y  
MPL Modeling System y   y y  
MPL Modeling System y   y y Global
OML (Optimization and Modeling Library)          
OMP Plus y        
OptiMax Component Library y   y y Global
Optware Enterprise          
Premium Solver Platform y y y y Non-smooth and arbitrary objectives and constraints
Quantitative Methods Software (QMS)          
Risk Solver Platform y y y y Chance constraints, non-smooth and arbitrary objectives and constraints
SAS y   y y  
Solver Platform SDK y y y y Non-smooth and arbitrary objectives and constraints
SOPT (Smart Optimizer) 4.2 y y y y  
SYMPHONY          
TOMLAB y y      
Vanguard Business Analytics Suite y y     No restrictions in Stochastic Optimizer mode
Vanguard System for Web-based Optimization y y y y No restrictions in Stochastic Optimizer mode
What'sBest y   y y Nonsmooth, nonconvex functions via Global solver, Lookup functions
XA y        
YALMIP y y y y Semidefinite constraints

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