Re: Contribution to the optimization toolbox

[Michael Creel]

Hi Leonardo,
I'm the author of samin and bfgsmin, which are in the optim toolbox.
The optim toolbox is a collection of tools by different authors,
without any planning or coordination. It's open to anyone who has
contributions to make. If someone has enough interest and energy to
try to make it a little more homogeneous, coordinated and complete,
that would be great.
Cheers, Michael

On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 1:06 AM, Leonardo Martins
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> I'm an experienced MATLAB user who has been working on applied
> optimization for the last 6+ years and have recently been introduced
> to the latest developments in Octave. Although many impressive
> improvements have been done in several areas since last time I played
> with Octave, from my very own perspective quite a few things could be
> done for the optimization toolbox. I believe many MATLAB Optimization
> Toolbox users would love to switch to Octave, and that's why I'm
> writing to you.
>
> I'm willing to help on the implementation of algorithms I have worked
> on for the Octave base, but first would like to know from the
> maintainers what the current development status is, and also what are
> the plans for future improvements. I have experience with interior
> point algorithms for nonlinear programming, as well C and MATLAB
> programming.
>
> Bottomline is: I would like to help but don't know how and where to start.
>
> Thanks for your attention.
>
> Regards,
>
>  -- L.M.
> Ph.D Student
> School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
> University of Campinas, Brazil
>