About Pyomo

Pyomo is a Python-based open-source software package that supports a diverse set of optimization capabilities for formulating, solving, and analyzing optimization models.

A core capability of Pyomo is modeling structured optimization applications.  Pyomo can be used to define general symbolic problems, create specific problem instances, and solve these instances using commercial and open-source solvers.  Pyomo's modeling objects are embedded within a full-featured high-level programming language providing a rich set of supporting libraries, which distinguishes Pyomo from other algebraic modeling languages like AMPL, AIMMS and GAMS.

Pyomo supports a wide range of problem types, including:

  • Linear programming

  • Quadratic programming

  • Nonlinear programming

  • Mixed-integer linear programming

  • Mixed-integer quadratic programming

  • Mixed-integer nonlinear programming

  • Stochastic programming

  • Generalized disjunctive programming

  • Differential algebraic equations

  • Bilevel programming

  • Mathematical programs with equilibrium constraints

Pyomo also supports iterative analysis and scripting capabilities within a full-featured programming language.  Further, Pyomo has also proven an effective framework for developing high-level optimization and analysis tools.  For example, the PySP package provides generic solvers for stochastic programming.  PySP leverages the fact that Pyomo's modeling objects are embedded within a full-featured high-level programming language, which allows for transparent parallelization of subproblems using Python parallel communication libraries.

Pyomo was formerly released as the Coopr software library.

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Pyomo was originally developed by researchers in the Center for Computing Research at Sandia National Laboratories and is a COIN-OR project.