BARON

For other uses, see Baron (disambiguation).
BARON
Developer(s)The Optimization Firm
Written inFortran, C, C++, YACC
Operating systemWindows, Linux, macOS
TypeMathematical Optimization, Operations Research
LicenseProprietary
Websiteminlp.com

BARON is a computational system for solving non-convex optimization problems to global optimality. Purely continuous, purely integer, and mixed-integer nonlinear problems can be solved by the solver. Linear programming (LP), nonlinear programming (NLP), mixed integer programming (MIP), and mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) are supported. In a comparison of different solvers, BARON solved the most benchmark problems and required the least amount of time per problem.[1]

BARON is available under the AIMMS, AMPL, GAMS, JuMP, MATLAB, Pyomo, and YALMIP modeling environments on a variety of platforms. The GAMS/BARON solver is also available on the NEOS Server.[2]

The development of the BARON algorithms and software has been recognized by the 2004 INFORMS Computing Society Prize[3] and the 2006 Beale-Orchard-Hays Prize[4] for excellence in computational mathematical programming from the Mathematical Optimization Society. BARON's inventor, Nick Sahinidis,[5] was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in October 2022 for his contributions to science and engineering.

  1. ^ "A comparison of complete global optimization solvers" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-08-08. Retrieved 2022-09-21.
  2. ^ "BARON on the NEOS Server". Archived from the original on 2013-06-29. Retrieved 2016-01-26.
  3. ^ "ICS Prize / Prizes / ICS / Community / IOL Home - INFORMS.org". October 20, 2010. Archived from the original on 2010-10-20.
  4. ^ "Mathematical Optimization Society". May 21, 2011. Archived from the original on 2011-05-21.
  5. ^ "Professor Nikolaos V. Sahinidis". February 22, 2023. Archived from the original on 2023-02-03. Retrieved 2023-02-22.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)