History
List of MIDACO versions
Version | Release Date | Notes |
1.0 | Jul. 2010 |
* First stable release version ( over 4 Years of development )
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2.0 | Mar. 2011 |
* Minor bug fixed (QSTART) * License-Key & Watermark protection system
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3.0 | Jan. 2012 |
* Large scale optimization capabilities (up to 10,000 variables) * Bounds Profiler for graphical solution interpretation * Parallelization options
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4.0 | Apr. 2013 |
* Complete code restructuring: ~25% faster than Version 3.0 * Bug fixed (Parallelization) * Reduced algorithmic overhead * New parameter options (FSTOP & FOCUS) * Simplified examples + extended solution file output
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5.0 |
Apr. 2016 |
* Multi-Objective capability * Large Scale capability (up to 100,000 variables) * Improved algorithmic performance * Internal local solver (backtracking line search) * AllDifferent - constraint support (incl. TSP type) * New parameter options (EVALSTOP, PARETOMAX & EPSILON) * Solution history file, containing all evaluations * MS-Excel Add-In, Java and C# gateway
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6.0
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Mar. 2018 |
* Advanced Multi-Objective options (Utopia-Nadir-Balance) * Further algorithmic improvements, esp. for problems with CPU-time expensive simulation and therefore low maximal function evaluation budget * Further improvements on parallelization efficiency * Increased numerical precision of internal local solver * New PlotTool features ( solution export, live mode, add files ) * New VBA gateway including multi-objective optimization * New Julia gateway including multi-objective optimization |