@misc{ArnoldBertholdHeinzetal., author = {Arnold, Thomas and Berthold, Timo and Heinz, Stefan and Vigerske, Stefan and Henrion, Ren{\´e} and Gr{\"o}tschel, Martin and Koch, Thorsten and Tischendorf, Caren and R{\"o}misch, Werner}, title = {A Jack of all Trades? Solving stochastic mixed-integer nonlinear constraint programs}, series = {MATHEON - Mathematics for Key Technologies}, volume = {1}, journal = {MATHEON - Mathematics for Key Technologies}, editor = {Deuflhard, Peter and Gr{\"o}tschel, Martin and H{\"o}mberg, Dietmar and Horst, Ulrich and Kramer, J{\"u}rg and Mehrmann, Volker and Polthier, Konrad and Schmidt, Frank and Sch{\"u}tte, Christof and Skutella, Martin and Sprekels, J{\"u}rgen}, publisher = {European Mathematical Society}, doi = {10.4171/137}, pages = {135 -- 146}, abstract = {Natural gas is one of the most important energy sources in Germany and Europe. In recent years, political regulations have led to a strict separation of gas trading and gas transport, thereby assigning a central role in energy politics to the transportation and distribution of gas. These newly imposed political requirements influenced the technical processes of gas transport in such a way that the complex task of planning and operating gas networks has become even more intricate. Mathematically, the combination of discrete decisions on the configuration of a gas transport network, the nonlinear equations describing the physics of gas, and the uncertainty in demand and supply yield large-scale and highly complex stochastic mixed-integer nonlinear optimization problems. The Matheon project "Optimization of Gas Transport" takes the key role of making available the necessary core technology to solve the mathematical optimization problems which model the topology planning and the operation of gas networks. An important aspect of the academic impact is the free availability of our framework. As a result of several years of research and development, it is now possible to download a complete state-of-the-art framework for mixed-integer linear and nonlinear programming in source code at http://scip.zib.de}, language = {en} } @misc{ArnoldBertholdHeinzetal., author = {Arnold, Thomas and Berthold, Timo and Heinz, Stefan and Vigerske, Stefan and Henrion, Ren{\´e} and Gr{\"o}tschel, Martin and Koch, Thorsten and Tischendorf, Caren and R{\"o}misch, Werner}, title = {A Jack of all Trades? Solving stochastic mixed-integer nonlinear constraint programs}, issn = {1438-0064}, doi = {10.4171/137}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-49947}, abstract = {Natural gas is one of the most important energy sources in Germany and Europe. In recent years, political regulations have led to a strict separation of gas trading and gas transport, thereby assigning a central role in energy politics to the transportation and distribution of gas. These newly imposed political requirements influenced the technical processes of gas transport in such a way that the complex task of planning and operating gas networks has become even more intricate. Mathematically, the combination of discrete decisions on the configuration of a gas transport network, the nonlinear equations describing the physics of gas, and the uncertainty in demand and supply yield large-scale and highly complex stochastic mixed-integer nonlinear optimization problems. The Matheon project "Optimization of Gas Transport" takes the key role of making available the necessary core technology to solve the mathematical optimization problems which model the topology planning and the operation of gas networks. An important aspect of the academic impact is the free availability of our framework. As a result of several years of research and development, it is now possible to download a complete state-of-the-art framework for mixed-integer linear and nonlinear programming in source code at http://scip.zib.de}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{ShinanoAchterbergBertholdetal., author = {Shinano, Yuji and Achterberg, Tobias and Berthold, Timo and Heinz, Stefan and Koch, Thorsten and Winkler, Michael}, title = {Solving Hard MIPLIP2003 Problems with ParaSCIP on Supercomputers: An Update}, series = {IPDPSW'14 Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE, International Parallel \& Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops}, booktitle = {IPDPSW'14 Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE, International Parallel \& Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops}, editor = {IEEE,}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Washington, DC, USA}, isbn = {978-1-4799-4117-9}, doi = {10.1109/IPDPSW.2014.174}, pages = {1552 -- 1561}, language = {en} }