Re: [boost] GSOC LP library for Boost

Subject: Re: [boost] GSOC LP library for Boost
From: sguazt (marco.guazzone_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-03-28 16:25:28

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Chad Seibert <chadjseibert_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> This is a quite reasonable approach, since the MPS file format is a common
> file format for LP instances. So for library based solvers, I can interface
> directly with the library, but for standalone solvers, communication with
> the MPS file format ought to make things much easier.
>

You may consider to look at the AMPL [1,2] language which is used by
many LP (and NLP) solvers
Another good LP solver is GNU Linear Programming Toolkit (GLPK) [3]
(maybe the problem here is the license which is GPLv3).
Finally, on Wikipedia you can find a short comparison of different solvers [4]

References:
[1] http://www.ampl.com/
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMPL
[3] http://www.gnu.org/software/glpk/
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_programming#Solvers_and_scripting_.28programming.29_languages

Best,

-- Marco