From sources-request at octave dot org Fri May 28 13:38:52 2004
Subject: Re: Optimisation
From: "Steven G. Johnson" <stevenj at fftw dot org>
To: sources at octave dot org
Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 13:30:01 -0500

On Fri, 28 May 2004, Federico Zenith wrote:
> I was wondering whether there was anybody working on optimisation
> algorithms. lpsolve() answers still "not implemented yet" as of 2.1.57.
> Are they under active development? I learnt some C++ recently and had a
> course in optimisation (enough to program an algorithm I hope). If you
> need an hand for that, I'm here.

Writing a new optimization routine is a bad idea; better to re-use
something like the GNU linear programming kit.