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- From: meglan@mayo.edu (Dwight Meglan)
- Subject: Constrained optimization - C code
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- Organization: Orthopedic Biomechanics/ Mayo Clinic
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 15:06:42 GMT
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- I am trying to port some fortran software to C that I wrote several
- years ago to solve a problem involving multivariate nonlinear
- constrained minimization. I used a package developed at my old
- department (Mech. Eng. at Ohio State Univ.) called OPTPAK. This
- package was derived from another earlier work of the same name. The
- optimization code in this package is all in FORTRAN and has alot of
- baggage from its long development life.
-
- I have searched the nets (netlib,archie,etc...) looking for C source
- code to use in place of OPTPAK to solve such a problem but have not
- succeeded. I have looked at Numerical Recipes also- but the code for
- multivariate nonlinear minimization is unconstrained (at least I think
- that is the case :).
-
- So my question is- Could some kind soul out in netland direct me to a
- source for such code ? I would prefer something ftp'able but I can scan
- a journal article in if the C code is included in it.
-
- thanks for any and all help!
-
- dwight
-