@article{BestuzhevaBesanconChenetal., author = {Bestuzheva, Ksenia and Besan{\c{c}}on, Mathieu and Chen, Wei-Kun and Chmiela, Antonia and Donkiewicz, Tim and Doornmalen, Jasper and Eifler, Leon and Gaul, Oliver and Gamrath, Gerald and Gleixner, Ambros and Gottwald, Leona and Graczyk, Christoph and Halbig, Katrin and Hoen, Alexander and Hojny, Christopher and Hulst, Rolf and Koch, Thorsten and L{\"u}bbecke, Marco and Maher, Stephen J. and Matter, Frederic and M{\"u}hmer, Erik and M{\"u}ller, Benjamin and Pfetsch, Marc and Rehfeldt, Daniel and Schlein, Steffan and Schl{\"o}sser, Franziska and Serrano, Felipe and Shinano, Yuji and Sofranac, Boro and Turner, Mark and Vigerske, Stefan and Wegscheider, Fabian and Wellner, Philipp and Weninger, Dieter and Witzig, Jakob}, title = {Enabling research through the SCIP optimization suite 8.0}, series = {ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software}, volume = {49}, journal = {ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software}, number = {2}, doi = {10.1145/3585516}, pages = {1 -- 21}, abstract = {The SCIP Optimization Suite provides a collection of software packages for mathematical optimization centered around the constraint integer programming framework SCIP. The focus of this article is on the role of the SCIP Optimization Suite in supporting research. SCIP's main design principles are discussed, followed by a presentation of the latest performance improvements and developments in version 8.0, which serve both as examples of SCIP's application as a research tool and as a platform for further developments. Furthermore, this article gives an overview of interfaces to other programming and modeling languages, new features that expand the possibilities for user interaction with the framework, and the latest developments in several extensions built upon SCIP.}, language = {en} } @article{GamrathKochMaheretal., author = {Gamrath, Gerald and Koch, Thorsten and Maher, Stephen J. and Rehfeldt, Daniel and Shinano, Yuji}, title = {SCIP-Jack - A solver for STP and variants with parallelization extensions}, series = {Mathematical Programming Computation}, volume = {9}, journal = {Mathematical Programming Computation}, number = {2}, doi = {10.1007/s12532-016-0114-x}, pages = {231 -- 296}, abstract = {The Steiner tree problem in graphs is a classical problem that commonly arises in practical applications as one of many variants. While often a strong relationship between different Steiner tree problem variants can be observed, solution approaches employed so far have been prevalently problem-specific. In contrast, this paper introduces a general-purpose solver that can be used to solve both the classical Steiner tree problem and many of its variants without modification. This versatility is achieved by transforming various problem variants into a general form and solving them by using a state-of-the-art MIP-framework. The result is a high-performance solver that can be employed in massively parallel environments and is capable of solving previously unsolved instances.}, language = {en} } @article{RehfeldtKochShinano, author = {Rehfeldt, Daniel and Koch, Thorsten and Shinano, Yuji}, title = {Faster exact solution of sparse MaxCut and QUBO problems}, series = {Mathematical Programming Computation}, volume = {15}, journal = {Mathematical Programming Computation}, doi = {10.1007/s12532-023-00236-6}, pages = {445 -- 470}, abstract = {The maximum-cut problem is one of the fundamental problems in combinatorial optimization. With the advent of quantum computers, both the maximum-cut and the equivalent quadratic unconstrained binary optimization problem have experienced much interest in recent years. This article aims to advance the state of the art in the exact solution of both problems—by using mathematical programming techniques. The main focus lies on sparse problem instances, although also dense ones can be solved. We enhance several algorithmic components such as reduction techniques and cutting-plane separation algorithms, and combine them in an exact branch-and-cut solver. Furthermore, we provide a parallel implementation. The new solver is shown to significantly outperform existing state-of-the-art software for sparse maximum-cut and quadratic unconstrained binary optimization instances. Furthermore, we improve the best known bounds for several instances from the 7th DIMACS Challenge and the QPLIB, and solve some of them (for the first time) to optimality.}, language = {en} }