Tutorials

On this page, you will find a collection of tutorials that demonstrate how to use idol to solve various optimization problems. The tutorials are organized by topic.

Mixed-Integer Optimization

• Mixed-Integer Optimization
  • Modeling a MIP with idol
    • The Environment
    • Models
    • Variables
    • Expressions
    • Constraints
    • Objective Functions
  • Solving MIPs
    • The Concept of Optimizer and OptimizerFactory
    • Using an External Solver and Accessing the Solution
    • Getting Access to The Underlying Optimizer
    • Adding User Cuts and Lazy Constraints
    • Creating Your Own Callback
  • Branch-and-Bound Algorithm
    • Writing an LP-based Branch-and-Bound [TODO]
  • Column Generation and Branch-and-Price Algorithm
    • Solving A Dantzig-Wolfe Reformulation
    • Writing A Branch-and-Price Algorithm
    • Using Strong Branching

Bilevel Optimization

• Bilevel Optimization
  • Modeling a Bilevel Problem
  • Reading and Writing Bilevel Instances (BOBILib)
  • Deriving Single-level Reformulations
  • Solving Mixed-Integer Bilevel Problems with coin-or/MibS
  • From Pessimistic Bilevel Optimization to Optimistic Bilevel Optimization

Robust Optimization

• Robust Optimization
  • Single-stage Robust Optimization
  • Two-stage Robust Optimization (Adjustable)
    • Modeling Adjustable Robust Problems
    • The Column-and-Constraint Generation: Introduction

Artificial Intelligence

To come…