On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Nathann Cohen<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello everybody !!!
>
> Now that the basics of Linear Programming are written, I am looking
> for ways to make it useful in Sage : I have been looking for
> Optimization/Graph algorithms which could be implemented this way and
> came up with the following ones :
>
> Bin packing
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bin_packing_problem
>
> Independent set of Representatives
> ( generalizes, for example, graph coloring )
>
> Knapsack ( it seems Sage only solves some special cases for the
> moment )
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knapsack_problem
>
> Gomory-Hu Tree ( Polynomial )
> http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~visproj/eransagi/flow.html
>
> I will begin to write them as soon as LP will be merged into Sage, but
> I thought you may want plenty of other ones, and I sent this message
> just for that : if you can think about any Polynomial/NP-complete
> function you think would be useful in Sage, say its name ! ;-)

Cool.  This really increases my desire to have the LP code merged into Sage!
When you write some of the above, it would be good to add a 1-page
section to the standard "Sage tutorial" illustrating some of it, so
many first time Sage users will encounter this capability of Sage.

William

>
> Nathann
>
> >
>



-- 
William Stein
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://wstein.org

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