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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">I have a hard MINLP for which I explicitly relax the integrality constraints and terminate SCIP after a set time limit, taking the best (fractional) solution found and apply
a heuristic to (hopefully) generate a feasible integer solution.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Obviously running replications (so repeating the process) may improve the (heuristic integer) solution found. What would be a good way to replicate the situation, ideally
forcing SCIP to follow a different solution path from the previous replication to arrive at a different fractional solution?<o:p></o:p></font></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><font size="3" face="Calibri">John Beasley</font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">John Beasley</p>
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Mathematical Sciences<br>
Brunel University<br>
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