[Testtools] [Coin-announce] First public release of METSlib Metaheuristics library (0.4.3).

[Stefan Vigerske]

Hi,

can you add the output the autotools to the repository (trunk), e.g.,
configure, Makefile.in, libtool, ... That might give a chance to add
your project to the nightly builds (https://projects.coin-or.org/TestTools).
See also the suggestions on
https://projects.coin-or.org/BuildTools/wiki/pm-main

Currently, when I get trunk and call autogen.sh, I get:
- libtoolize.
You should add the contents of
`/home/stefan/local/share/aclocal/libtool.m4' to `aclocal.m4'.
Putting files in AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, `config'.
/home/stefan/local/bin/libtoolize: line 347: cd: config: file or
directory not found

And on windows(mingw) I do not even have autotools.

Stefan

Mirko Maischberger schrieb:
> Hello COIN-OR developers,
> 
> I'm pleased to announce the first METSlib release on COIN-OR.
> METSlib is a metaheuristics modeling framework and optimization
> toolkit in C++ released under the GPLv3 or, at your opinion, the CPL 1.0.
> 
> The home page for the project is https://projects.coin-or.org/metslib
> 
> In METSlib models and algorithms are modular: any provided search
> algorithm can be applied to the same model. On the other hand no
> assumption is made on the model, you can work on any problem type:
> timetabling, assignment problems, vehicle routing, bin-packing and so on.
> 
> Once you have implemented your model in the problem framework, the
> library makes easy testing different Tabu Search strategies or even
> different algorithms (Simulated Annealing or other local search based
> algorithms) with a few lines of code.
> 
> METSlib hides the nuts and bolts of the algorithms from your code, you
> are only supposed to code the problem logic, not the search algorithm.
> This results in clearer code, which is also easier to read: your search
> strategy can be better understood and modified with less effort.
> 
> The toolkit implements the basics of some metaheuristic algorithms:
> 
> * Local search;
> * Simulated Annealing;
> * Tabu Search.
> 
> It's really easy to code other metaheuristics using the previous ones as
> building blocks:
> 
> * Random Restart Local Search
> * Variable Neighborhood Search
> * Iterated Local Search
> 
> You can get the latest METSlib 0.4.3 sources and docs from the following links
> 
>  * http://www.coin-or.org/download/source/metslib/metslib-0.4.3.tgz
>  * http://www.coin-or.org/download/source/metslib/Examples-0.4.3.tgz
> 
> You can build the library with .the usual /configure; make; make install.
> 
> The documentation can also be found online:
> 
>  * http://www.coin-or.org/metslib/docs/releases/0.4.3/html/
> 
> The release has been tested on Ubuntu 8.04 and 9.04, on OpenSolaris 2009.06
> and on Windows/Cygwin1.7 (using gcc4)
> 
> Cheers,
> Mirko Maischberger
> 
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