A New Application Programming Interface and a Fortran-like Modeling Language for Evaluating Functions and Specifying Optimization Problems at Runtime

Abstract: A new application programming interface for evaluating functions and specifying optimization problems at runtime has been developed. The new interface, named FEFAR, uses a simple language named LEFAR. Compared with other modeling languages such as AMPL or OSil, LEFAR is Fortran-like hence easy to learn and use, in particular for Fortran programmers. FEFAR itself is a Fortran subroutine hence easy to be linked to user’s main programs in Fortran language. With FEFAR a developer of optimization solver can provide pre-compiled, self-executable and directly usable software products. FEFAR and LEFAR are already used in some optimization solvers and should be a useful addition to the toolbox of programmers who develop solvers of optimization problems of any type including constrained/unconstrained, linear/nonlinear, smooth/nonsmooth optimization.

Fuchun Huang. “ A New Application Programming Interface and a Fortran-like Modeling Language for Evaluating Functions and Specifying Optimization Problems at Runtime”. International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications (IJACSA) 3.4 (2012). http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2012.030401

@article{Huang2012,
title = { A New Application Programming Interface and a Fortran-like Modeling Language for Evaluating Functions and Specifying Optimization Problems at Runtime},
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2012.030401},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2012.030401},
year = {2012},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {3},
number = {4},
author = {Fuchun Huang}
}