Following the previous articles on interfaces (+) and (exact) solvers (+) for optimization in Python, in this article, I introduce some packages that provide an easy-to-use “interface” for artificially intelligent algorithms (AIAs) (e.g., heuristics, meta-heuristics, math-heuristics, learn-heuristics, hyper-heuristics, or sim-heuristics).…
No matter if it is the assignment of departments to empty rooms in a building, machines to manufacturing cells, factories to geographical regions, products to racks in a warehouse, sensors to devices, edge computers inside the internet of things network,…
Following the previous article on modeling and solving an optimization problem in Python using several “interfaces” (+), in this article, I try to provide a comprehensive review of open-source (OS), free, free & open-source (FOSS), and commercial “solvers,” which are…
Operations Research (OR) involves experiments with optimization models. The aim is to find the best design, plan, or decision for a system or a human. Accordingly, these models consist of objectives and constraints. However, most of the available packages or…