From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Thu Jan 11 09:24:46 2001 Subject: Re: Optimization toolbox (re-starting) From: Ben Sapp To: etienne at isr dot ist dot utl dot pt CC: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 08:24:36 -0700 Etienne Grossmann wrote: > I plan to write minimization functions that use 1st (conjugate > gradient method) and 2nd (Newton-like method) for minimizing > functions. The synopsis would be of the same kind. Also, I will write > a fancier front-end function like "minimize (f, args, options)" with > named options, mostly for command-line usage. It would be nice if you explained what R and C were in your documentation. Having a "minimize" for the command line is a great idea. I am curious, do you have any plans to implement bounded minimization/maximization in your toolbox? It would be really nice if you did. :) I do not think any one has implemented this for Octave. It would be a nice thing to have. -- Ben Sapp Los Alamos National Laboratory email: Phone: (505)667-3277 Fax: (505)665-7920 URL: http://www.neutrino.lanl.gov/ -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------