Basic Modeling for Discrete Optimization
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The University of Melbourne
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Basic Modeling for Discrete Optimization
The University of Melbourne
Informações sobre o curso
4.8
133 ratings
Optimization is a common form of decision making, and is ubiquitous in our society. Its applications range from solving Sudoku puzzles to arranging seating in a wedding banquet. The same technology can schedule planes and their crews, coordinate the production of steel, and organize the transportation of iron ore from the mines to the ports. Good decisions in manpower and material resources management also allow corporations to improve profit by millions of dollars. Similar problems also underpin much of our daily lives and are part of determining daily delivery routes for packages, making school timetables, and delivering power to our homes. Despite their fundamental importance, all of these problems are a nightmare to solve using traditional undergraduate computer science methods.
This course is intended for students interested in tackling all facets of optimization applications. You will learn an entirely new way to think about solving these challenging problems by stating the problem in a state-of-the-art high level modeling language, and letting library constraint solving software do the rest. This will allow you to unlock the power of industrial solving technologies, which have been perfected over decades by hundreds of PhD researchers. With access to this advanced technology, problems that are considered inconceivable to solve before will suddenly become easy.
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Habilidades que você terá
Constraint ProgrammingProblem SolvingMathematical ModelDiscrete Optimization
Programa - O que você aprenderá com este curso
1
Seção
MiniZinc introduction
In this first module, you will learn the basics of MiniZinc, a high-level modeling language for discrete optimization problems. Combining the simplicity of MiniZinc with the power of open-source industrial solving technologies, you will learn how to solve applications such as knapsack problems, graph coloring, production planning and tricky Cryptarithm puzzles, with great ease.
20 vídeos (Total de 219 min), 6 leituras, 1 teste
20 videos
1.1.1 First Steps14min
1.1.2 Second Model7min
1.1.3 Third Model6min
1.1.4 Models and Instances10min
1.1.5 Modeling Objects8min
1.1.6 Arrays and Comprehensions16min
1.1.7 Global Constraints9min
1.1.8 Module 1 Summary5min
Workshop 0 Solution19min
Workshop 1 Solution21min
Assignment Submission - IDE7min
Assignment Submission - CLI4min
Reference 1: Basic Features13min
Reference 2: Booleans Expressions13min
Reference 3: Sets, Arrays, Comprehensions19min
Reference 4: Enumerated Types7min
Reference 5: Strings and Output8min
Reference 6: Option Types12min
Reference 7: Command Line Interface8min
6 leituras
Course Overview10min
Start of Course Survey12min
Getting MiniZinc10min
Workshop 0: First Steps20min
Workshop 1: Temperature45min
About the Reference Material2min
2
Seção
Modeling with Sets
In this module, you will learn how to model problems involving set selection. In particular, you will see different ways of representing set variables when the variable has no constraints on its cardinality, has fixed cardinality and bounded cardinality. You also have to ensure all model decisions are valid decisions, and each valid decision corresponds to exactly one model decision.
6 vídeos (Total de 64 min), 1 leitura, 1 teste
6 videos
1.2.2 Choosing a Set Representation7min
1.2.3 Choosing a Fixed Cardinality Set10min
1.2.4 Sets with Bounded Cardinality13min
1.2.5 Module 2 Summary3min
Workshop 2 Solution19min
1 leituras
Workshop 2: Surrender Negotiations15min
3
Seção
Modeling with Functions
In this module, you will learn how to model pure assignment problems and partition problems, which are functions in disguise. These problems find applications in rostering and constrained clustering. In terms of modeling techniques, you will see the power of common subexpression elimination and intermediate variables, and encounter the global cardinality constraint for the first time. MiniZinc also provides constraints for removing value symmetries.
7 vídeos (Total de 86 min), 1 leitura, 1 teste
7 videos
1.3.2 Another Assignment Problem Example8min
1.3.3 Modeling Partitions10min
1.3.4 Global Cardinality Constraint9min
1.3.5 Pure Partitioning14min
1.3.6 Module 3 Summary5min
Workshop 3 Solution28min
1 leituras
Workshop 3: Feast Trap50min
4
Seção
Multiple Modeling
In the final module of this course you will see how discrete optimization problems can often be seen from multiple viewpoints, and modeled completely differently from each viewpoint. Each viewpoint may have strengths and weaknesses, and indeed the different models can be combined to help each other.
6 vídeos (Total de 67 min), 2 leituras, 1 teste
6 videos
1.4.2 Permutation13min
1.4.3 More Permutation Problem8min
1.4.4 More Multiple Models12min
1.4.5 Module 4 Summary7min
Workshop 4 Solution13min
2 leituras
Workshop 4: Composition5min
End of Course Survey10min
4.8
Melhores avaliações
por MS•Sep 22nd 2018
Great course, but huge gap in difficulty between weeks two and three, as it seemed to me. Knowledge given by course is applicable both for a work and a hobby for me.
por KP•Oct 4th 2017
very nice introduction to minizinc with great and easy assignments to get you started
Instrutores
Prof. Peter James Stuckey
ProfessorComputing and Information Systems
Prof. Jimmy Ho Man Lee
ProfessorDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering
Sobre The University of Melbourne
The University of Melbourne is an internationally recognised research intensive University with a strong tradition of excellence in teaching, research, and community engagement. Established in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest University.
Sobre The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Founded in 1963, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is a forward looking comprehensive research university with a global vision and a mission to combine tradition with modernity, and to bring together China and the West. CUHK teachers and students hail from all corners of the world. CUHK graduates are connected worldwide through an expansive alumni network.
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