NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #18/NN_1992_18.iso/spool/sci/math/10387

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From: [e-mail] (Mr K.A. Brinschwitz)
Subject: Re: Linaer Programming software sought
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Keywords: linear programming
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Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 00:48:21 GMT
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    I would recommend the G.A.M.S package (General Algebraic Modelling System).
This is a commercially available optimization modelling package which handles linear,
 non-linear, integer, mixed-integer and zero-one integer programming. The software
uses MINOS and ZOOM routines, and the package is available on a wide variety of
operating systems.

    GAMS uses its own language, which is based on FORTRAN, that is quite easy to
use, and has various 'nice' features, such as allowing direct array manipulations.
The language is set up in such a way that any program run in GAMS more or less reads
as it would in the mathematical terminology. There is a comprehensive users guide,
and a library of 100 or so example problems (some of which are very large)

    I am not sure where you can purchase the package itself, but the publishers
of the user guide are:

    THE SCIENTIFIC PRESS
    507 Seaport Court
    Redwood City,
    CA 94063-2731

    Phone [phone]

    Maybe they can point you in the right direction.

    Cheers,

    Kurt Brinschwitz
    [e-mail]

    Monash University, Australia