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#            NOMAD - Nonsmooth Optimization by Mesh Adaptive Direct search            #
#            V 3.5.1                                                                  #
#            2012/03                                                                  #
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#	Copyright (C) 2001-2012                                                       #
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#                           Mark Abramson	 - the Boeing Company, Seattle        #
#                           Charles Audet	 - Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal      #
#                           Gilles Couture	 - Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal      #
#                           John Dennis		 - Rice University, Houston           #
#                           Sebastien Le Digabel - Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal      #
#                           Christophe Tribes    - Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal      #
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#    Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal - GERAD                                          #
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#    fax   : 1-514-340-5665                                                           #
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     AUTHORS :

* Mark A. Abramson (Mark.A.Abramson@boeing.com), The Boeing Company.

* Charles Audet (www.gerad.ca/Charles.Audet), GERAD and Departement de
mathematiques et de genie industriel, ecole Polytechnique de Montreal.

* J.E. Dennis Jr. (www.caam.rice.edu/~dennis), Computational and Applied
Mathematics Department, Rice University.

* Sebastien Le Digabel (www.gerad.ca/Sebastien.Le.Digabel), GERAD and Departement
de mathematiques et de genie industriel, ecole Polytechnique de Montreal.

* Christophe Tribes, GERAD, Departement
de mathematiques et de genie industriel, Department of mechanical engineering, ecole Polytechnique de Montreal.

     DESCRIPTION :

NOMAD is a C++ implementation of the Mesh Adaptive Direct Search (MADS) algorithm,
designed for constrained optimization of black-box functions.

The project started in 2001, and was funded in part by AFOSR, CRIAQ, FQRNT, LANL,
NSERC, the Boeing Company, and ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company.


     WEB PAGE :

http://www.gerad.ca/nomad/


     FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS :

Please visit the web page for futher instruction on the following:

  * Downloading, configuring, compiling, and installing NOMAD
  * Using NOMAD and setting the parameters
  * Reports on NOMAD
  * How to report bugs and make enhancement requests
  * And more...


     BATCH OR LIBRARY MODE :

NOMAD is designed to be used in two different modes : batch and library.
The batch mode is intended for a basic ans simple usage of the MADS method,
while the library mode allows more flexibility.
For example, in batch mode, users must define their separate black-box program,
that will be called with system calls by NOMAD.
In library mode, users can define their black-box function as C++ code
that will be directly called by NOMAD, without system calls and temporary files.


     TYPES OF USE :

There are two ways of using NOMAD, one can directly use an executable or compile
the source code.

NOMAD batch mode executable is located in directory $NOMAD_HOME/bin.
In order to avoid compiling the code, you can simply use this executable.


     HOW TO EXECUTE NOMAD :

For informations about the execution of NOMAD, please read the user_guide :

  %NOMAD_HOME%\doc\user_guide

or

  http://www.gerad.ca/NOMAD/Downloads/user_guide.pdf