USER'S GUIDE FOR TOMLAB /NPSOL

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 progr ams, 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 rst layer gives direct access from Matlab to NPSOL, via calling a Matlab function that calls a pre-compiled MEX le (DLL under Windows, shared library in UNIX) that denes and solves the problem in NPSOL. The second layer is a Matlab function that takes the input in the TOMLAB format, and calls the rst layer function. On return the function creates the output in the TOMLAB format. ams, 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 rst layer gives direct access from Matlab to NPSOL, via calling a Matlab function that calls a pre-compiled MEX le (DLL under Windows, shared library in UNIX) that denes and solves the problem in NPSOL. The second layer is a Matlab function that takes the input in the TOMLAB format, and calls the rst layer function. On return the function creates the output in the TOMLAB format.