OpenSolver would not be possible without the CBC solver developed by the COIN-OR group. Working with colleagues Bob Fourer, Kevin Furman, William Hart and Michael Trick, we are preparing to nominate the initiators and founders of COIN-OR for the 2014 INFORMS Impact Prize. Thus we are soliciting testimonials to the impact that COIN-OR projects, and OpenSolver in particular, have had on diverse research and business activities.
We invite you to send us a paragraph or two describing how OpenSolver software has made a significant difference to your work and accomplishments. Please send your description by June 25 to me at email hidden; JavaScript is required Also feel free to send me any questions about what’s needed.
OpenSolver has been an extremely useful extension to the excel, from fairly stragthforward optimization issues to operational efficiency and finance problems or models.
COIN-OR has been an instrumental in the development of many projects, I can not think of a more useful web site for optimization, or a better wayplace for democratizing operational reserach.
Thanks for taking the time to give your feedback. More comments are most welcome to support our nomination. Andrew