MIDACO Knowpia

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.^[1]^[2] MIDACO holds several record solutions on interplanetary spaceflight trajectory design problems^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6] 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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^ 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.
^ Newspaper article on MIDACO space applications in Defense & Aerospace Week (June 2013)
^ 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.
^ List of record solutions on ESA GTOC1 benchmark
^ List of record solutions on ESA Messenger (full version) benchmark
^ List of record solutions on ESA Cassini2 benchmark
^ TOMLAB MIDACO webpage
^ Astos Lotos product page
^ SigmaXL DiscoverSim product page