# Introduction

A short description of how SHOT works is available [here](https://www.shotsolver.dev/shot/about-shot/algorithm). For more information, please read the papers listed on the [Publications ](https://www.shotsolver.dev/shot/about-shot/publications)page. 

## COIN-OR project

SHOT is a COIN-OR project, and the code is hosted at COIN-OR's Github page [github.com/coin-or/shot](https://github.com/coin-or/shot). 

**SHOT won the** [**COIN-OR Cup**](https://www.coin-or.org/2018-coin-or-cup-winner) **in 2018.** The prize recognizes and celebrates the best contributions to open source operations research software development and use associated with the COIN-OR software collection.

## Developers and contributors

SHOT has mainly been developed by Andreas Lundell (Åbo Akademi University, Finland) and Jan Kronqvist (Imperial College London, UK). The GAMS integration has been made by Stefan Vigerske (GAMS Software GmbH). A full list of contributors and utilized third-party code and libraries are available [here](https://www.shotsolver.dev/shot/about-shot/contributors).