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MIDACO

MIDACO is a software package for numerical optimization based on evolutionary computing. MIDACO was created in collaboration of European Space Agency and EADS Astrium to solve constrained mixed-integer non-linear (MINLP) space applications. MIDACO holds several record solutions on interplanetary spaceflight trajectory design problems made publicly available by European Space Agency. MIDACO is included in software packages like TOMLAB, Astos, and SigmaXL.

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MIDACO (Mixed Integer Distributed Ant Colony Optimization) is a software package for numerical optimization based on evolutionary computing. MIDACO was created in collaboration of European Space Agency and EADS Astrium to solve constrained mixed-integer non-linear (MINLP) space applications.12 MIDACO holds several record solutions on interplanetary spaceflight trajectory design problems3456 made publicly available by European Space Agency. MIDACO is included in software packages like TOMLAB,7 Astos,8 and SigmaXL.9

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  1. M. Schlueter; S. Erb; M. Gerdts; S. Kemble; J.J. Rueckmann (2013). "MIDACO on MINLP Space Applications". Advances in Space Research. 51 (7): 1116–1131. Bibcode:2013AdSpR..51.1116S. doi:10.1016/j.asr.2012.11.006.
  2. Newspaper article on MIDACO space applications in Defense & Aerospace Week (June 2013)
  3. M. Schlueter (2014). "MIDACO software performance on interplanetary trajectory benchmarks". Advances in Space Research. 54 (4): 744–754. Bibcode:2014AdSpR..54..744S. doi:10.1016/j.asr.2014.05.002.
  4. List of record solutions on ESA GTOC1 benchmark
  5. List of record solutions on ESA Messenger (full version) benchmark
  6. List of record solutions on ESA Cassini2 benchmark
  7. TOMLAB MIDACO webpage
  8. Astos Lotos product page
  9. SigmaXL DiscoverSim product page
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