Optimization Services: A Framework for Distributed Optimization

Robert Fourer (), Jun Ma () and Kipp Martin ()
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Robert Fourer: Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208
Jun Ma: Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208
Kipp Martin: Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637

Operations Research, 2010, vol. 58, issue 6, 1624-1636

Abstract: We describe a research project to design a distributed optimization environment in which solvers, modeling languages, registries, analyzers, and simulation engines can be implemented as services and utilities under a unified framework. Our work, which we call optimization services or OS, defines standards for all activities necessary to support decentralized optimization on the Internet: representation of optimization instances, results, and solver options; communication between clients and solvers; and discovery and registration of optimization-related software using the concept of Web services. In this paper we place emphasis on issues in distributed computing that are posed by the special character of optimization. We also describe a reference implementation that is freely available as an open-source project of COIN-OR.

Keywords: optimization; modeling languages; distributed computing; XML; Web services; COIN-OR (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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