GLPKMEX
A Matlab MEX Interface for the GLPK library

GLPK (GNU Linear Programming Kit) is a set of routines written in the ANSI C programming language and organized in the form of a callable library. It is intended for solving linear programming (LP), mixed integer programming (MIP), and other related problems.

GLPKMEX is a Matlab MEX interface for the GLPK library which offers the following potentials:

• Possibility to use GLPK through a simple matlab command, namely glpk.

• Possibility to solve LP/MILP problems by defining all data and parameters in the Matlab workspace.

• Easy definition of all GLPK parameters from which you can specify, for instance, which solver to use (simplex or interior point), activate/deactivate presolver, etc...

• Possibility to save the original model on a file specified by the user with one of the formats supported by GLPK: CPLEX LP, fixed MPS, free MPS, plain text (see GLPK's reference manual for further details).

• A few Matlab examples to show how simple is to define and solve LP/MILP problems.

• An automatic script to compile your own mex interface.

• And more... GLPKMEX includes now a simple Matlab-coded QP solver (still in beta version) developed by the author of GLPKMEX which uses GLPK to solve QP problems. A few examples are included in the distribution.

Users could find useful the following links:

1. GLPK FTP site from which : ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glpk/

2. CYGWIN: www.cygwin.com

3. GNUMEX: gnumex.sourceforge.net

Author: Nicolò Giorgetti <giorgetti __ at __ ieee.org>
Page revised on June 11, 2007.