DP2PN2Solver swMATH ID: 216 Software Authors: Mauch, Holger Description: Dynamic programming (DP) is a very general optimization technique, which can be applied to numerous decision problems that typically require a sequence of decisions to be made. The solver software DP2PN2Solver presented in this paper is a general, flexible, and expandable software tool that solves DP problems. It consists of modules on two levels. A level one module takes the specification of a discrete DP problem instance as input and produces an intermediate Petri net (PN) representation called Bellman net (Lew, 2002; Lew, Mauch, 2003, 2004) as output – a middle layer, which concisely captures all the essential elements of a DP problem in a standardized and mathematically precise fashion. The optimal solution for the problem instance is computed by an “executable” code (e.g., Java, Spreadsheet, etc.) derived by a level two module from the Bellman net representation. DP2PN2Solver’s unique potential lies in its Bellman net representation. In theory, a PN’s intrinsic concurrency allows to distribute the computational load encountered when solving a single DP problem instance to several computational units. Homepage: http://natsci.eckerd.edu/~mauchh/Research/DP2PN2Solver/ Keywords: matrix chain multiplication problem; optimization software; Petri net model; traveling salesman problem; Bellman net Related Software: PNML Cited in: 2 Documents Standard Articles 1 Publication describing the Software, including 1 Publication in zbMATH Year DP2PN2Solver: a flexible dynamic programming solver software tool. Zbl 1115.90382Mauch, Holger 2006 Cited by 2 Authors 2 Mauch, Holger 1 Lew, Art Cited in 2 Serials 1 Control and Cybernetics 1 Studies in Computational Intelligence Cited in 3 Fields 2 Calculus of variations and optimal control; optimization (49-XX) 2 Operations research, mathematical programming (90-XX) 1 Computer science (68-XX) Citations by Year