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Re: Numerical Optimization of Expensive Functions

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  • Subject: [mg41850] Re: [mg41843] Numerical Optimization of Expensive Functions
  • From: Sseziwa Mukasa <mukasa at jeol.com>
  • Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 00:08:39 -0400 (EDT)
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On Friday, June 6, 2003, at 09:51 AM, Kyriakos Chourdakis wrote:

> [deleted]

> I know of the packages NPSOL and LSSOL which are designed to deal with 
> such
> problems. They are implemented in FORTRAN77.
>
> A.	Do you know of such an implementation for Mathematica?

No.

> B.	Is it possible to use the F77 versions of the packages to solve the
> problem? Is there a way of calling the F77 subroutines from Mathematica? I do 
> not
> have the Fortran90/95 compilers, only g77.

I have had reasonable luck using f2c (http://www.netlib.org/f2c/) to 
change Fortran code to C and then using Mathlink.

Regards,

Sseziwa


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