Software documentation
There are several technical reports
describing the internal structure of the environment.
- Global Optimization in the COCONUT project, Slides 2003 (PDF file, 6448K)
- The VGTL (Vienna Graph Template Library) Version 1.3, Reference Manual, Technical Report, January 2010 (PDF file, 3114K; html)
- The VDBL (Vienna Database Library) Version 1.2, Reference Manual, Technical Report, January 2010 (PDF file, 1565K; html)
- The COCONUT API Version 3.0067, Reference Manual, Technical Report, January 2010 (PDF file, 5981K; html)
- HOWTO contribute to the COCONUT environment, Technical Report
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Publications
- For COCONUT-related publications, please see the publication lists of Hermann Schichl and Mihály Csaba Markót.
- A good amount of the scientific background for the techniques in the COCONUT Environment is described in the survey paper Complete Search in Continuous Global Optimization and Constraint Satisfaction", pp. 271-369 in: Acta Numerica 2004 (A. Iserles, ed.), Cambridge University Press 2004, by Arnold Neumaier.
- General information on global optimization can be found on Global (and Local) Optimization page maintained by Arnold Neumaier.