AIMMS - Context

AIMMS in Context:

Operations Research
A description of operations research scope, definition, activities, community and societies.
Implementation Approaches
Overview of the different implementation approaches for decision support applications: Packaged solutions, mathematical modeling, Excel spreadsheet modeling, component based programming, full programming.
Mathematical Modeling Tools
A comparison between AIMMS and all other major mathematical modeling tools (GAMS, OPL Studio CPLEX, Mosel Xpress , AMPL, MPL, Lindo).
Mathematical Programming
AIMMS is an excellent tool for modeling mathematical programming (MP) problems. AIMMS provides solvers for all major mathematical programming problems including linear programming, mixed integer programming, nonlinear programming and mixed integer nonlinear programming.
AIMMS and Excel
Summary of strength and weaknesses of Excel as a modeling tool, and a comparison with the mathematical programming tool AIMMS.
Benefits of AIMMS
The benefits of using the development tool AIMMS for decision support applications: the completeness, versatility, reduction of development time, risk, and cost, flexibility, scalability, high performance, ease to learn, wide use.