News - Dash Optimization announces success of Academic Partnership Program

28 August 2002

ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, NJ and LONDON: Dash Optimization today announced the success of its new Academic Partnership Program (APP).

The Academic Partnership Program which began six months ago to encourage academic use of Dash's Xpress-MP modeling and optimization products has been extremely successful. To date, five of the top ten Industrial Engineering colleges* have signed up for the Academic Partnership Program as well as a number of other universities in the US, Canada, Europe, and South America. Some of the participants of the Academic Partnership Program include: Georgia Institute of Technology, Imperial College, London, Michigan State University, Purdue University, Stanford University, Technical University of Karlsruhe, Germany, Texas A&M at College Station, University of Florida, and University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Details of the APP: The objective of the Academic Partnership Program is to make Xpress-MP widely available to academics in research, teaching and related activities. For this reason the program is free-of-charge to qualifying institutions and the benefits of the program include up to ten full edition, single-user licenses, unlimited Student Edition licenses, and rights to copy all manuals for teaching and research purposes.

Quotations from Academic Partnership Program Participants:
Thus far the Academic Partnership Program has received very positive feedback from the participants.

Dr. Reha Uzsoy from Purdue University comments: "Xpress-MP has been an excellent tool for us to pursue our work on modeling manufacturing capacity and congestion dynamics-the combination of easy input and fast solution time has definitely expedited our progress."

Dr. David L. Woodruff from UC Davis states "Stefan Voss and I have just finished a book to be published by Springer that treats well known production planning models in an optimization framework and then extends them to take advantage of optimization technology. The Mosel implementations included in the book demonstrate that Mosel provides a powerful and clean representation for these models."

In speaking about Xpress-MP, Dr. Toshiyuki Sueyoshi from New Mexico Tech claims: "I like the software. I have produced two research papers using it. One of the two will be published in the European Journal of Operations Research (2003). The software enhances our analytical capability in terms of solving various LP and IP problems."

Related Material:
In support of the Academic Partnership Program, Dash Optimization is publishing a book entitled: Applications of optimization with Xpress-MP. This book will be available in September 2002. For more information about obtaining a copy of Applications of optimization with Xpress-MP visit Dash Optimization's website by clicking here.

To join the Academic Partnership Program:
If you are an academic at a degree-awarding institution and are interested in obtaining more information about the Academic Partnership Program, please email: or click here to find out more.