From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Fri Jan 22 11:32:23 1999 Subject: Re: Hi, ... From: Joao Cardoso To: Andrea Ciuffoli CC: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 17:31:57 +0000 Hi, At you can find several optimization algoritms. I tried dsmax with sucess on Octave with only very small modofications. The Mathworks download license says: The rules for M-file submissions are, 1. The authors name and address (e-mail or otherwise) must be included. ... 5. All files submitted should represent your own work and include no material copyrighted by The MathWorks or any other party. 6. This archive is publicly accessible. All files submitted to the archive are subject to public distribution. Please submit only those files you wish to be put into the public domain. And I supose that they can be distributed with Octave. As I am not an Optimization guru, I can't rewrite those functions "without looking the code", but I can adapt them for use with Octave. Is it legal? Joao Andrea Ciuffoli wrote: ... > I need to use fmins and fminstep to find the rigth parameters of a > fnction given a set of data. -- Joao Cardoso | e-mail: jcardoso at inescn dot pt INESC, R. Jose Falcao 110 | tel: + 351 2 2094322 4050 Porto, Portugal | fax: + 351 2 2008487