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1 Introduction
1.1 Overview
Welcome to the TOMLAB /NPSOL User's Guide. TOMLAB /NPSOL includes
a set of solvers and MATLAB embedded interfaces. The solver
package includes binaries for the following solvers:
MINOS - For large-scale sparse general nonlinear programming
problems.
LP-MINOS - For large-scale sparse linear programming problems.
QP-MINOS - For large-scale sparse quadratic programming problems.
LPOPT - For dense linear programming problems.
QPOPT - For dense convex quadratic programming problems.
LSSOL - For dense linear and convex quadratic programs, and
constrained linear least squares problems.
NLSSOL - For nonlinear least squares with linear and nonlinear
constraints.
NPSOL - For dense linear, quadratic and nonlinear programming.
Please visit
http://tomopt.com/tomlab/products/sol/ for more
information.
The interface between TOMLAB /NPSOL, Matlab and TOMLAB consists
of two layers. The first layer gives direct access from Matlab
to NPSOL, via calling a Matlab function that calls a
pre-compiled MEX file (DLL under Windows, shared library in UNIX)
that defines and solves the problem in NPSOL. The second layer is
a Matlab function that takes the input in the TOMLAB format, and
calls the first layer function. On return the function creates the
output in the TOMLAB format.
1.2 Contents of this Manual
- Section 2 gives the basic information needed to
run the Matlab interface.
- Section 3 provides all the solver
references for MINOS, LP-MINOS, QP-MINOS, LPOPT, QPOPT, LSSOL,
NLSSOL, and NPSOL.
- Section 4 discusses the use of TOMLAB /NPSOL in
more detail.
1.3 Prerequisites
In this manual we assume that the user is familiar with NPSOL, the
various SOL Reference Manuals, TOMLAB and the Matlab language.
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