From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Mon May  3 13:01:46 1999
Subject: Re: archive of optimisation routines
From: heberf <heberf at calvin dot wustl dot edu>
To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 13:02:58 -0500 (CDT)

These look pretty good to me.  Could someone who understands the GPL better than 
I do take a look at this page and tell me if it's compatible with the GPL.  If 
someone needs to talk to Professor Ye then I'll nominate myself.  I may have a 
little pull given that we are both business school professors.

Heber Farnsworth

> I seem to recall that someone in the recent postings on the lack of
> optimisation code suggested contacting Yinyu Ye, of the University of
> Iowa, College of Business Administration. I would also advocate that those
> people who are interested in (and capable of) integrating GPL optimisation
> code into Octave contact Y.Ye 
> 
> I noticed that the Website for the Computational Optimisation Laboratory
> of which he is the Director,
> 
> http://dollar.biz.uiowa.edu/col/
> 
> contains freely distributatble source for LP, LCP, QP and SemiDefinite
> Programming, either in Fortran or in C.
> 
> There are also Matlab routines at the site, for solving Linear Programs,
> (constrained and unconstrained), Quadratic Programs, and NonLinear
> Programs, by Sequential QP. These seem to work fine under Octave. Anyone
> interested in finding a quick fix for Octave's optimisation incapacities
> could start with this (freely-distributable??) archive of M-files.
> 
> David Dowey
>