EMP swMATH ID: 1086 Software Authors: Schittkowski, Klaus Description: EMP: An expert system for mathematical programming. The paper describes a software system that supports model building and numerical solution of various mathematical programming problems, e.g. of nonlinear programming, data fitting, min-max programming, multicriteria optimization, nonsmooth optimization, quadratic programming, or linear programming, subject to linear or nonlinear constraints. All actions of the system are controlled by menues which inform the user how to generate, solve, edit, delete or list a problem, for example. Nonlinear problem functions must be defined by sequences of FORTRAN statements assigning a numerical value to a user-provided name. The system writes a complete FORTRAN source program, which is linked and executed automatically. All problem data and numerical results are stored in a data base and are easily retrieved for further processing. For each nonlinear problem, at least two different mathematical algorithms are available. The system is capable to learn, i.e. to improve its own knowledge on the success of the algorithms, and to perform a rule-based error analysis in case of nonsuccessful termination. Homepage: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-46631-1_12 Keywords: expert system; software system; data fitting; min-max programming; multicriteria optimization; non-smooth optimization; linear or nonlinear constraints Related Software: SLP-IOR; GAMS; ELL; NLPQL; NPSOL; PCOMP; MODLER; AIMMS; AMPL; MSLiP; DFELL; MCO; QPSOL; QL; DFNLP; ACCPM; PADMOS; JAKEF; Maple; ADOL-C Cited in: 8 Publications Standard Articles 1 Publication describing the Software, including 1 Publication in zbMATH Year EMP: An expert system for mathematical programming. Zbl 0645.90069Schittkowski, Klaus 1988 all top 5 Cited by 7 Authors 4 Mayer, Janos 3 Kall, Peter 3 Schittkowski, Klaus 1 Dobmann, M. 1 Gassmann, Horand I. 1 Ireland, A. M. 1 Liepelt, Michael Cited in 4 Serials 1 ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software 1 Annals of Operations Research 1 European Journal of Operational Research 1 Mathematical Programming. Series A. Series B Cited in 4 Fields 7 Operations research, mathematical programming (90-XX) 3 Numerical analysis (65-XX) 1 Calculus of variations and optimal control; optimization (49-XX) 1 Computer science (68-XX) Citations by Year