[Minotaur] Optimality

[Ashutosh Mahajan]

Dear Christiano

The solvers currently implemented in Minotaur guarantee optimal solutions
only when the problem is convex. They may still be used for nonconvex problems
as heuristics.

We will have solvers that guarantee optimal solutions for nonconvex problems
in the future.

Cheers.
--
Regards
Ashutosh Mahajan

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 02:07:17PM +0000, Cristiano Arbex Valle wrote:
> Dear Minotaur team,
> 
> Does Minotaur guarantee optimality for mixed-integer nonlinear models?
> 
> I came across these talk slides on the internet prepared by your team:
> 
> http://www.csm.ornl.gov/workshops/applmath11/documents/talks/Mahajan_talk.pdf
> 
> On the 4th slide I found this sentence:
> If p = 0, – Global Optimization
> 
> That suggests that if we have integer variables than Global
> Optimization is not guaranteed, is it true? Does it have global
> optimization for models with convex non linear constraints but not for
> non convex?
> 
> Thank you very much,
> 
> --
> Cristiano Arbex Valle
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