Software:BARON
| Developer(s) | The Optimization Firm |
|---|---|
| Written in | Fortran, C, C++, YACC |
| Operating system | Windows, Linux, macOS |
| Type | Mathematical Optimization, Operations Research |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | minlp |
BARON is a computational system for solving non-convex optimization problems to global optimality. Purely continuous, purely integer, and mixed-integer nonlinear problems can be solved by the solver. Linear programming (LP), nonlinear programming (NLP), mixed integer programming (MIP), and mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) are supported. In a comparison of different solvers, BARON solved the most benchmark problems and required the least amount of time per problem.[1]
BARON is available under the AIMMS, AMPL, GAMS, JuMP, MATLAB, Pyomo, and YALMIP modeling environments on a variety of platforms. The GAMS/BARON solver is also available on the NEOS Server.[2]
The development of the BARON algorithms and software has been recognized by the 2004 INFORMS Computing Society Prize[3] and the 2006 Beale-Orchard-Hays Prize[4] for excellence in computational mathematical programming from the Mathematical Optimization Society. BARON's inventor, Nick Sahinidis,[5] was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in October 2022 for his contributions to science and engineering.
References
- ↑ "A comparison of complete global optimization solvers". https://www.mat.univie.ac.at/~neum/ms/comparison.pdf.
- ↑ "BARON on the NEOS Server". http://www.neos-server.org/neos/solvers/index.html.
- ↑ "ICS Prize / Prizes / ICS / Community / IOL Home - INFORMS.org". October 20, 2010. http://www.informs.org/Community/ICS/Prizes/ICS-Prize.
- ↑ "Mathematical Optimization Society". May 21, 2011. http://www.mathprog.org/?nav=boh_2006.
- ↑ "Professor Nikolaos V. Sahinidis". February 22, 2023. http://www.nae.edu/270376/Professor-Nikolaos-V-Sahinidis.
External links
 |  |
