Originally posted by: PRIMARY Harry Vrazopoulos

I am trying to set an initial solution for warm-starting a MIP problem in CPLEX through the Java API. Is the "setVectors" method suitable? If yes, how is it used? Is there a simple example? The initial solution comes from a heuristic and is in the form of a vector of integers with the same length as the respective decision variable.

Besides "setVectors" are there any other related methods for warm-starting a MIP problem?

Thx in advance
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

I don't know what method in Java API, but I think there would be a similar method to that in C++. You could search "readMIPStart" in the help document for Java. This might help. But you need to provide a solution file with an extension of .mst. For more details, please refer to Starting with a Feasible Solution in the manual for ILOG CPLEX. Good luck.
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Originally posted by: GuangFeng

Please use IloCplex.addMIPStart. You can find more information here
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Originally posted by: PRIMARY Harry Vrazopoulos

Thank you, that was very helpful.
I finally managed to warm-start my MIP problem.
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Originally posted by: fch2000

Can you share your java code that does the warm-start of your MIP problem?

Thanks.
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