Cassowary.net

How to start doing LP

Asked by TS

Dear Sir,
I'm new to LP. I'm trying to use it for delivery commit optimization.

Apperciate if you can kindly tell me what I need to install to start using Cassowary.net & how to set up the constraints.

In addition, how can we convert or implement it in MS Excel VBA ?

Thanks.

Regards,
TS

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Jo Vermeulen (jozilla) said : 		#1

Like mentioned on the homepage (http://jozilla.net/Software/CassowaryNet), you should keep in mind that Cassowary.net is not a traditional LP solver. Cassowary is optimized for user interface applications, and uses a modified (incremental) version of the simplex algorithm which might yield different results compared with traditional linear programming tools. I have been contacted before by people who were using Cassowary.net as a regular LP solver, but were getting strange results. For more details about the underlying algorithm, have a look at the Cassowary TOCHI paper by Badros, Borning and Stuckey:

http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/constraints/solvers/cassowary-tochi.pdf

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