Optimization Tooling

I would like to report the contents of the Progress window such as the number of variables, parameters, non-zeros, objective function, solve-time, used method, etc. to a customized log file in a preferably .txt or .xlsx file formats. My goal is to have separate log files for each run so I can analyze specific parameters,  e.g. the relation between objective function, solver method, and solving time.  I already found a way, in which the solver (I use Gurobi) writes this information together with a specific number of solving iterations to a log file in the log folder. This method has two major drawbacks for me: First, with every run, the new log will be added to the older log in the same .txt file. So I have to exit the AIMMS after each run to have separate log files! Second, there is a lot of information in this log file that I have no interest in. So I need to write an algorithm in a third-party application to fish the needed values.   Are you aware of any method to achieve my goal wit

I’m trying to update our AIMMS model to the latest software version as it is long overdue - we were previously using version 4.1 and now want to update to 4.71. I’m very new to the AIMMS language so am being stumped by the following error message that appears when I open the model in 4.71:  “A definition cannot as a side effect change another identifier. The third argument of intrinsic function “StringToElement” should be set to 0 explicitly.”   The piece of code that relates to this error message is { (tpehis,pe) | FormatString("%e",pe) = StringToElement(Periods,SubString(FormatString("%e",tpehis),1,4) + "-" + SubString(FormatString("%e",tpehis),5,6) ,1)};   From what I can pick up from the manual, in the StringToElement function, a value of 1 creates the element. This piece of code works perfectly fine in the 4.1 version of AIMMS. Why is this error occurring and how can I fix this?   Thanks.

It seems the data-widget.uri selector for the selectionbox widget can only be accessed in the div of the code that manages the non-dropdown options.  The div that controls the dropdown options is farther down and does not have the data-widget.uri selector available. How can I change the styling of the fonts in the dropdown box if I want to change them for exactly ONE selectionbox widget only?

In WebUI in the Map widget I can change the outline of the label, but not the color of the label. Notice what my font looks like with the following css: Here’s the result: I recall having a similar issue with the labels on the Gantt chart, for which the solution was to use the selector .label. I have tried this with the map widget with no success. Can you please tell me what css I need to style this?

Hi, I’m able to set the height of the headers in a widget → However, is it also possible to change the number of lines from 1 to 2 / 3? I tried a few things in CSS but it didn’t work.   I’m looking for something like this:   Preferably with a title line and a smaller subtitle line

Identifiers with code:binary range are displayed as checkboxes in table and scalar widgets of AIMMS WebUI, by default. You can render on/off switches instead of checkboxes using CSS. Here

Is is possible to add a label to a bar chart widget?  Looking to this picture, it is not clear if the supply in Hamburg is 68/69. I would be happy with the following labels:    (and also the legend would be great)

Is is possible to add a widget action to a label widget?

I was wondering if there is a way in aimms to generate sol and lp files using original variable and constrain names which are used in aimms modelling, or alternatively, to figure out the correspondence between variables in the sol and lp files and those in the aimms model? Thanks

I need to provide an initial (staring) solution for a mixed integer programming from a solution file (file.sol) to help the solver (cplex) in finding the optimal solution faster, but I do not know how.  I need to mention that: I have changed the setting for cplex to “Use advanced basis” the file.sol has been created by aimms for the same MIP  My knowledge of aimms is basic  I  would appreciate if you could provide some details about variable initialisation. Thanks

Hi, I read some topics about setting the colors of a legend widget. However, I think that those topics are related to a fixed color for a specific item.  For example, parameter pDemand(iscen), I use an color per scenario to show different colors in a line chart via an annotation spAnnotion(iscen). Now I want to show the same colors in the legend widget, So I made a parameter pLegend(iscen) with the same annotation spAnnotation(iscen). I would expect that the legend is using the same colors as the line chart.  But the colors of the legend are not changing?

  We noticed a few customers asking to have control on when to start showing the Progress “Busy” Message bar on top of an Application while AIMMS is executing something (default is 0.4 seconds). For example, when there is execution going on, but it’s just above the default threshold and you do not want to see this message yet.  This can be easily achieved by adding the following custom CSS: /* do not show busy window for first 1.5 seconds */.veiled .tag-veil { transition-delay: 1.5s;}   Please know that data changes are still blocked so don’t make this to long as else users might think the App itself is not responsive; e.g. clicking a cell or item in a chart won’t work until the execution is done. Also, this is an application wide change.    PS: In case you did not know, you can adjust the message. For details, see https://manual.aimms.com/webui/library.html#setprogressmessage  

Hi community! I recently got an interesting question in our user support channel: Is it possible to set conditional coloring of the total based on its positive/negative value?  And I came up with the following trick… td.cell.flag-readOnly.flag-number.annotation-total.annotation-explicit.annotation-sum input { color: green;}td.cell.flag-readOnly.flag-number.annotation-total.annotation-explicit.annotation-sum input[value*="-"] { color: red;} table widget with totals highlighted  Remark: You may use the same idea to hide zeros in the totals :)

Hi, I have a question regarding some best practices in terms of reading excel files with the axll library. Here, we have to specify the header / dataranges before reading. Often, we don't know exactly how many rows of data we have. We can of course set the max row number arbitrary large (or to the excel sheet row limit of 1,048,576), but that feels like a ‘dirty’ solution. Is there another way we can only read the rows which actually have data? Ideally, I would like some sort of functionality which ‘peeks’ into the file and tells us where the data is. Curious to hear possibilities in this regard. Thanks!

I am getting the following error when I try to open a project in 4.70: This project (with WebUI) opens just fine in 4.69.  What needs to be fixed? And how can I fix it?

Dear All, In many publications related to power system expansion planning, model validation is done by applying the developed model to a small system such as Garver 6 Bus and describing the result without detailed explanation to justify the model is valid or not. Is there any specific methods to validate the optimization model? Thank you very much.  

Can anybody suggest how can i eliminate the following error? Warning: After 66905692 iterations CPLEX 12.8 terminated and leastcost is still infeasible. 

Dear community of AIMMS WebUI Users, With the upcoming end of life of Windows 7 (Jan 14, 2020), all Windows users should by now be on Windows 10 or higher and therefore have the Edge browser available as the primary browser. During our development of the AIMMS WebUI, Internet Explorer 11 support has always been an expensive and tedious task and a burden to innovate fast (and we are not the only software company facing this). Therefore, we are removing the support for Internet Explorer 11 and ask you to use the Edge browser to run AIMMS WebApps as of January 2020. If you have the choice, we still recommend the Chrome browser as the preferred browser.    We are making this decision based on the support tables of Microsoft and the wish to free up expensive developers time to support old technology. However, we also are aware that possibly a small group of customers might not be ready to give up Internet Explorer 11. If so, we love to hear from you.   PS: For accuracy, I should have mentio

I’m getting crazy proficient in changing my colors of stuff, but there’s one thing that I’m still missing. If I’m not specific in my annotations, WebUI will default to the factory color palette. How can I change my default color palette to be my client’s branding color palette?    Here are the WebUI standard colors. Granted, they’re pretty, but I need to be able to have properly branded colors.  

Dear AIMMS Team, I am a PhD student in the UK and I have been trying to solve a non-linear non-convex optimisation problem with different solvers for a Journal Paper. The following are the CPU details: Intel Core i7 2.2GHz, 16GB RAM memory, 64-bit operating system. So far the solvers CONOPT 4.0 and IPOPT 3.11 have been able to solve the case without problems. Unfortunately, when I use MINOS the following error appears: Errors/Warnings Warning: Model status 13: Error no solution, Solver status 9: Error: Setup failure (see message window). Message Window For the MinCost 39239 columns have been generated of which only 31245 are non-empty. Calling MINOS for NLP of 34726 rows, 31245 columns and 109867 non-zeros. Calling MINOS to solve NLP model 'MinCost' and minimize GenCost. Generation required 0.406 seconds. MINOS error: Not enough memory for basis factorization. Required amount of memory: 2799 Mb. You could increase the value of the general solvers option 'solver workspace'. There is 1.7

Hello!  I have three table’s on a page, and it depends on the initialization which is the main one. I would like to change the table’s header if thats the main, but i can’t find the right CSS code to make it avaiable only for the needed table widget.  The last version I used: .theme-aimms .aimms-widget [data-widget\.uri = 'ForecastResults_Level3'].awf-dock.top.vbox .annotation-master3 {     border-radius: 5px 5px 0 0;*/     background: rgba(144, 193, 204); } What am I doing wrong?    Thanks for your help   

Hi AIMMS support! I have noticed that for the Workflow Panel and for the Status Bar there are pre-declared sets for indication of the order of the workflow steps (webui::indexWorkflowOrder) and status bar messages (webui::indexApplicationExtension) respectively. But for the Side Panel and the Widget Action the developer needs to declare such a set (as a subset of integers) in each model. In my point of view it will be better to work with per-declared sets for all these objects, also makes it easier to copy sections between different models. Are there plans to add these pre-declared sets for the workflow and status in the future releases? Thanks, Tanya