AmplNLReader.jl: A Julia interface to AMPL

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How to Install

At the Julia prompt,

pkg> add AmplNLReader

Testing

pkg> test AmplNLReader

Creating a Model

For an introduction to the AMPL modeling language, see

• R. Fourer, D. M. Gay, and B. W. Kernighan, AMPL: A Mathematical Programming Language, Management Science 36, pp. 519-554, 1990.
• R. Fourer, D. M. Gay, and B. W. Kernighan, AMPL: A Modeling Language for Mathematical Programming, Duxbury Press / Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, 2003.
• D. Orban, The Lightning AMPL Tutorial. A Guide for Nonlinear Optimization Users, GERAD Technical Report G-2009-66, 2009.

Suppose you have an AMPL model represented by the model and data files mymodel.mod and mymodel.dat. Decode this model as a so-called nl file using

ampl -ogmymodel mymodel.mod mymodel.dat

For example:

julia> using AmplNLReader

julia> hs33 = AmplModel("hs033.nl")
Minimization problem hs033.nl
nvar = 3, ncon = 2 (0 linear)

julia> print(hs33)
Minimization problem hs033.nl
nvar = 3, ncon = 2 (0 linear)
lvar = 1x3 Array{Float64,2}:
 0.0  0.0  0.0
uvar = 1x3 Array{Float64,2}:
 Inf  Inf  5.0
lcon = 1x2 Array{Float64,2}:
 -Inf  4.0
ucon = 1x2 Array{Float64,2}:
 0.0  Inf
x0 = 1x3 Array{Float64,2}:
 0.0  0.0  3.0
y0 = 1x2 Array{Float64,2}:
 -0.0  -0.0

There is support for holding multiple models in memory simultaneously. This should be transparent to the user.

Optimization Problems

AmplNLReader.jl currently focuses on continuous problems conforming to NLPModels.jl.

AmplModel objects support all methods associated to NLPModel objects. Please see the NLPModels.jl documentation for more information. The following table lists extra methods associated to an AmplModel. See Hooking your Solver to AMPL for background.

Method	Notes
write_sol(nlp, msg, x, y)	Write primal and dual solutions to file

Missing Methods

• methods for LPs (sparse cost, sparse constraint matrix)
• methods to check optimality conditions.