FICO^® Xpress Fundamentals with Xpress Insight

Course Name: OPT-210:  FICO® Xpress Fundamentals with Xpress Insight
Duration: 4 days
Delivery Method: Classroom, lectures, hands-on labs, group discussions
Target Audience: Operations/Operational Research practitioners and/or optimization modelers
Max Class Size: 12
Prerequisites: None
Required Skills: Basic understanding of algebra and familiarity with standard Windows applications; some programming development using C/C++, Java, C# or VB/VBA is required.

Course Overview
This course familiarizes attendees with optimization models and techniques, and the terminology used to describe them. Participants gain an understanding of the Xpress suite, the Mosel modeling and programming language, and Xpress Workbench. Through a series of projects illustrating applications of the LP and MIP methods, students learn to implement optimization models using Xpress Optimization Suite.

This course introduces Xpress Insight, a web-based (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) platform that interfaces with Mosel models. Using the View Definition Language (VDL) to create custom views, Xpress Insight enables the end user to configure optimization projects to investigate, analyze, and compare different scenarios. Additional topics include advanced application development and visualizations techniques.

Objectives
This course enables participants to:

• Formulate, implement, and solve LP and MIP optimization models
• Deploy models using Xpress Insight
• Describe problem solutions
• Analyze infeasible problems
• Solve goal programming problems
• Define common standard model formulations
• Create applications with customized views using Xpress Insight