[Coin-ipopt] A new MATLAB interface for IPOPT

[Peter Carbonetto]

I'm excited to announce that a MATLAB interface to IPOPT is now available 
in the new, stable release of IPOPT. The state-of-the-art in contrained, 
nonlinear optimization is now available to MATLAB users for free!

Detailed installation instructions plus a tutorial are all found on the 
new webpage (https://projects.coin-or.org/Ipopt/wiki/MatlabInterface).

If you are a MATLAB user, I highly encourage you to try it out. It has 
been especially designed so that experienced MATLAB users will find it 
easy to use. Installing the MATLAB interface library is a little tricky, 
so if you have any questions or problems to report, please send an email 
to the IPOPT mailing list.

The MATLAB interface to IPOPT was developed in C++ using the MATLAB External 
Interface (MEX). Of note, it supports sparse matrices for the Hessian and 
Jacobian matrices.

Thanks to Andreas Waechter for all his help!

Peter Carbonetto
Ph.D. Candidate
Dept. of Computer Science
University of British Columbia