readSMPS-CPP

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reading SMPS format files for two-stage stochastic programs

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Author: Siavash Tabrizian -- [email protected]

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Intoduction:

readSMPS: A package for reading and saving the information of two stage stochastic programs from SMPS files

There are implementations for reading SMPS files which are either written in other programming languages (C or Julia) or do not provide a suitable data structures for L-shaped based algorithms (based on CPLEX solver). Moreover, it would be crucial to facilitate the problem to handle sampling techniques for stochastic programming which can be done in this code.

• this package stores the problem information in CPLEX Concert Technology format
• the distribution of random variables are discrete (even if it is not discrete it can be turned to a discrete distribution)
• randomness is on the right handside of the recourse problem
• COR file contains the mean value problem whose optimal value yields a lower bound

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Dependencies:

• This package needs the CPLEX (Concert Technology) solver for optimization parts, and the problem will be created based on the CPLEX (Concert Technology) objects.

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Output

• this program will read the SMPS files, decompose the problem into a master and subproblem based on the CPLEX (Concert Technology) objects. The data structure in which problems will be stored are all defined in prob_struct.h

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SMPS

• SMPS is an efficient and effective way of describing stochastic programs.

  It contains the follwoing files:

  1 - _.cor:

  This file is the core of the formulation which is basically derived from the mean value problem. It's format is very similar to _.mps files.

  2 - _.tim

  This file contains the information of stages. The name of rows and columns associated with each stage

  3 - _.sto

  This file contains the information about the random variables, and their distribution. Also, it shows the place in which the random variables appear in the second stage problem

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Description

The program starts with asking the instance name and the number of samples

>> Inter Test Instance Name:
>> Sample Size:

After that it will produce the decomposed problems which is suitable for L-shaped type of algorithms