Carmen has enjoyed long relations with
Chalmers University of Technology and the
University of Gothenburg. During the last ten years, more than 30
students have carried out thesis projects at Carmen, and most
of them have since joined Carmen. Joint research seminars and course contributions
on both sides help build these relationships.
At the beginning of the development of Carmen Tail Assignment, it was
extremely important to get as much intellectual input as possible. Along
with involving all Carmen experts, a partnership with a leading research
institution in the field was sought. Carmen and Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum Berlin
(ZIB), a non-university research centre for scientific computing of the
state of Berlin, started a partnership at the end of 1999. The centre
is renowned for its excellence in applied research in discrete optimization.
The main objective of this collaboration was an exchange of ideas and
a joint analysis of various algorithmic alternatives.
The outcome of this co-operation for Carmen was a culmination of new
ideas that provided significant performance improvements of the tail assignment
optimizer.
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