Kestrel: An interface from optimization modeling systems to the NEOS server

INFORMS Journal on Computing

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 525-538

  Dolan, Elizabeth D ^a,b   Fourer, Robert ^a   Goux, Jean Pierre ^c   Munson, Todd S ^b   Sarich, Jason ^b  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c POWERNEXT   (France)

Author keywords

Internet services; Mathematical programming; Modeling languages; Optimization

Indexed keywords

EID: 61349199025     PISSN: 10919856     EISSN: 15265528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/ijoc.1080.0264     Document Type: Article

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