[Insight-users] Linear programming in ITK

[Markus Neuner]

Sorry, i misunderstood your question.
I thought you want to solve a linear system.

Mye this very nice site can help you in finding a suitable LP solver:

- H.D. Mittelmann, Decision Tree for Optimization Software,
http://plato.asu.edu/guide.html (2009)

Best regards
Markus



Yulia.Arzhaeva at csiro.au wrote:
>  Hi Markus.
>
> If I am not very much mistaken, linear programming is more than solving a system of linear equations. Basically, I am looking for an implementation of simplex method inside ITK. Any ideas about that?
>
> Best regards,
> Yulia
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Markus Neuner [mailto:neuner.markus at gmx.net] 
> Sent: Friday, 16 October 2009 5:09 PM
> To: Arzhaeva, Yulia (CMIS, Macquarie Uni.)
> Cc: todd.jensen at ieee.org; insight-users at itk.org
> Subject: Re: [Insight-users] Linear programming in ITK
>
> Hi Yulia,
>
> maybe you have a look at
> - vnl_linear_system
>  
> http://public.kitware.com/vxl/doc/release/core/vnl/html/classvnl__linear__system.html
> - vnl_lsqr as solver
>  
> http://public.kitware.com/vxl/doc/release/core/vnl/html/classvnl__lsqr.html
> - or in directory algo (
> http://public.kitware.com/vxl/doc/release/core/vnl/html/dir_000002.html )
>   for more advanced solvers.
>
> Best regards
> Markus
>
>
>
> Yulia.Arzhaeva at csiro.au wrote:
>   
>> Thank you, Todd,
>>  
>> Unfortunately I wasn't able to find any routine resembling an LP
>> solver inside Utilities/vxl. That is why I have asked about it in this
>> forum. Perhaps, I missed something in my search. I expect people from
>> Kitware to know whether LP is there or not. Hopefully they will answer
>> this.
>>  
>> Yulia
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> *From:* insight-users-bounces at itk.org
>> [mailto:insight-users-bounces at itk.org] *On Behalf Of *Todd Jensen
>> *Sent:* Friday, 16 October 2009 4:11 AM
>> *To:* insight-users at itk.org
>> *Subject:* Re: [Insight-users] Linear programming in ITK
>>
>>
>> From: <Yulia.Arzhaeva at csiro.au <mailto:Yulia.Arzhaeva at csiro.au>>
>>     
>>> I am wondering whether any linear programming solver is included in ITK.
>>> It looks like none, but I might have overlooked something.
>>> I'd like to know for sure before I start writing my own optimizer
>>> class around some open source LP solver, such as lp_solve, for example.
>>>       
>> Yulia,
>>
>> The VXL distribution contained in the ITK Utilities/vxl directory may
>> have what you need [ref http://vxl.sourceforge.net/].
>>
>> Todd Jensen
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