MIDACO ( Mixed Integer Distributed Ant Colony Optimization) is a software package for numerical optimization based on

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. MIDACO was created in collaboration of

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and EADS Astrium to solve constrained mixed-integer non-linear (MINLP) space applications. MIDACO holds several record solutions on interplanetary spaceflight trajectory design problems made publicly available by

. MIDACO is included in software packages like

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, and SigmaXL.SigmaXL DiscoverSim product page
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