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## Tips and Tricks

Through clever use of the features provided in the multi-scenario interface, it is actually possible to do a lot more than it may first appear.

Adding or Deleting Variables or Constraints

The multi-scenario interface provides no way to add or remove variables or constraints in a scenario, but the same effect can be achieved by changing variable bounds and constraint right-hand side values. To remove a variable in a scenario, simply change its lower and upper bounds to zero. To add a variable, set its bounds to zero in the base model and change them to their true values in the scenario. To remove a less-than constraint, change the right-hand-value in the scenario to GRB.INFINITY. To add one, set its right-hand side to GRB.INFINITY in the base model and change it to its true value in the scenario.

Changing the sense of a constraint can also be done using similar tricks. For example, you can transform an equality constraint in the base model into an inequality in a scenario by splitting the equality into a pair of inequalities. The right-hand side values for both inequalities in the base model would be equal to the true value in the equality. The right-hand side value on one of the two inequalities can then be relaxed to GRB.INFINITY in the scenario.

You can also change the type of a variable. For example, to transform an integer variable in the base model into a continuous variable in a scenario, you can add both variables in the base model, along with a split equality constraint that sets them equal to each other. That equality constraint could then be relaxed in the scenario (using the techniques just described).

This isn't meant to be an exhaustive list of all of the ways that you can use supported multi-scenario features to achieve seemingly unsupported outcomes. The set of building blocks that we have provided can be assembled in a variety of different ways.

If all scenarios in your multi-scenario model are infeasible, your optimize call will produce an INFEASIBLE (or INF_OR_UNBD) status code. While you can't compute an IIS on a multi-scenario model, you can extract individual scenarios as Gurobi model objects using the singleScenarioModel method (see below) and then compute an IIS on each scenario individually.

Solving The Base Model

As noted earlier, an optimize call on a multi-scenario model will not solve the base model. If you'd like to solve that model too, include an empty scenario among your scenarios.

Extracting One Scenario

If you'd like to extract one scenario from a multi-scenario model, you can use the singleScenarioModel method (in C, C++, Java, .NET, and Python).

Performance Considerations

While it may appear to be important to minimize the number of scenarios in your model, note that some scenarios are trivial to solve and thus have no impact on overall solution cost. The main thing to keep in mind is that, if (1) the solution for one scenario is feasible for another scenario, and (2) the bounds and right-hand side values for the first scenario are never tighter than the bounds for the other scenario, then the optimal solution for the first scenario is also optimal for the other scenario. This means that some scenarios won't increase solution cost significantly.