OR Final Project

Broad overview

The python script generate-dat.py reads in configuration csv's from config/ and template amplscripts from templates/. The script then generates plain old ampl files in build/. This way, the user can conveniently edit the configuration in their spreadsheet program of choice (e.g. Libreoffice or Excel) and rerun the model to obtain alternate schedules.

See our final report for more documentation.

Set-up

1. git clone https://github.com/ianrabt/OR-Final-Project.git
2. make sure ampl and cplex are in your path
3. either install Jinja2 globally, or create a virtual environment as follows:
4. create a Python virtual environment: python3 -m venv env
5. activate it: source env/bin/activate (you can call deactivate to exit after you are done)
6. install requirements: pip install -r requirements.txt

Generating AMPL files from the CSV's

1. edit .csv files in config/ (can edit in an Excel spreadsheet and download the files as '.csv' files)
2. run ./generate-dat.py

Running the AMPL model

1. launch an AMPL shell by running ampl. Then, in that shell run the following:
2. include schedule.run; (see schedule.run for the commands being run)