The SIZES Test Problems

 

Contributed by Nan Kong

 

 

The SIZES test problem suite consists of 3 instances of a two-stage multi-period stochastic mixed integer program arising in the product substitution applications. The problem formulation is described in [1]. The problems have mixed-integer variables in both stages.

 

DATA:

 

The SMPS data for the three problem instances are contained in the zip file sizes.zip. The zip file includes 1 core and 3 stoch files corresponding to three scenario numbers (3,5, and 10). The zip file also includes the deterministic equivalent of the 3 instances in MPS format. The size of the deterministic equivalent problem for three instances are tabulated below.

 

Problem

Scen

Cols

Rows

Binaries

SIZES3

3

300

124

40

SIZES5

5

450

186

60

SIZES10

10

825

341

110

 

SOLUTION:

 

The following table presents the objective function value and performance statistics obtained using the CPLEX 7.0 MIP solver on a DELL Workstation PWS with 2 GB RAM and 2.2 GHz processor. The operating system is Windows 2000. We did some proper preprocessing, namely coefficient reduction.  The absolute and relative MIP gaps are 0 for the CPLEX MIP solver. All other options are with CPLEX default values.

 

Problem

Obj

With Preprocessing

Without Preprocessing

Iter

Nodes

CPU

Iter

Nodes

CPU

SIZES3

2.2443432´105

2595

198

0.33

6047

347

0.77

SIZES5

2.24486´105

15044

1148

2.14

113036

8638

16.36

SIZES10

2.245643´105

6246157

406369

1152.69

-

-

>104

 

 

REFERENCES:

[1] S. Jorjani, C. H. Scott, and D. L. Woodruff. Selection of an optimal subset of sizes. Technical report, University of California, Davis, CA, 1995.