[Minotaur] Optimality

[Cristiano Arbex Valle]

Thank you very much Ashutosh.

On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 7:00 AM, Ashutosh Mahajan <mahajan at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> 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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