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On-line Documentation

This page contains all the GAMS documentation available on-line.

General GAMS documents
GAMS - A User's Guide User's Guide by Brooke, Kendrick, Meeraus, and Raman
A GAMS Tutorial A Tutorial by Rick Rosenthal
Expanded GAMS Guide (McCarl) Expanded GAMS User Guide by Bruce McCarl
Installation Notes for PC GAMS Installation and System Notes for Windows
Installation Notes for UNIX GAMS Installation and System Notes for UNIX
Information Sources of GAMS Information
Release Notes Distribution Release Notes
Solver Manuals
Introduction Using Solver Specific Options
AlphaECP MINLP solver based on the extended cutting plane (ECP) method
BARON Branch-And-Reduce Optimization Navigator for proven global solutions from The Optimization Firm
BDMLP LP solver that comes with any GAMS system
BENCH A utility to facilitate benchmarking of GAMS solvers and solution verification.
COIN-OR Link to the solvers in the COIN-OR project (Computational Infrastructure - Operations Research)
CONOPT Large scale NLP solver from ARKI Consulting and Development
CONVERT Framework for translating models into scalar models of other languages
CPLEX High-performance LP/MIP solver from Ilog
DECIS Large scale stochastic programming solver from Stanford University
DICOPT Framework for solving MINLP models. From Carnegie Mellon University
EMP Framework for Extended Mathematical Programming
EXAMINER A tool for examining solution points and assessing their merit
GAMS/AMPL A link to solve GAMS models using solvers within the AMPL modeling system
GAMSBAS A Program for Saving an Advanced Basis for GAMS
GAMSCHK A System for Examining the Structure and Solution Properties of Linear Programming Problems Solved using GAMS
GAMS/LINGO A link to solve GAMS models using solvers within the LINGO modeling system
KNITRO Large scale NLP solver from Ziena Optimization, Inc.
LGO Lipschitz global optimizer from Pinter Consulting Services
LINDOGlobal MINLP solver for proven global solutions from Lindo Systems, Inc.
LOGMIP Logical Mixed Integer Programming is a solver for generalized disjunctive programs (GDP)
MILES MCP solver from University of Colorado at Boulder that comes with any GAMS system
MINOS NLP solver from Stanford University
MOSEK Large scale LP/MIP plus conic and convex non-linear programming system from MOSEK ApS
MPSGE Modeling Environment for CGE models from University of Colorado at Boulder
MPSWRITE MPS file generator that comes with any GAMS System
MSNLP Multi-start method for global optimization from Optimal Methods Inc.
NLPEC MPEC to NLP translator that uses other GAMS NLP solvers
OQNLP Multi-start method for global optimization from Optimal Methods Inc.
OSL High performance LP/MIP solver from IBM
OSLSE OSL Stochastic Extension for solving stochastic models
PATH Large scale MCP solver from University of Wisconsin at Madison
PATHNLP Large scale NLP solver from University of Wisconsin at Madison
SBB Branch-and-Bound algorithm from ARKI for solving MINLP models
SCENRED A tool for the reduction of scenarios modeling the random data processes
SNOPT Large scale SQP based NLP solver from Stanford University
XA Large scale LP/MIP system from Sunset Software
XPRESS High performance LP/MIP solver from Dash
The composite Solver Manuals (Print Version)
Additional GAMS documents
FAQ Tips and Tricks - The Official GAMS FAQ
GAMS Grid Computing The GAMS Grid Computing facility
GAMS Posix Utilities GAMS Posix Utilities
GAMS GDX facilities GAMS GDX facilities and tools
GAMS/Excel Using GDX Read and write data with Excel using the GDX facilities
BCH Facility The GAMS Branch-and-Cut-and-Heuristic Facility
Conic Programming Conic Programming in GAMS
Secure Work Files Protecting Parts of a Model by Secure Restart Files
Model Types Supported GAMS Model Types (LP, MIP, ...)
CNS Solving Constrained Nonlinear System (CNS) with GAMS
Sensitivity Analysis Sensitivity Analysis with OSL and CPLEX
Runtime License The GAMS Runtime license option
External Functions How to include External functions in GAMS
GAMS and Other Applications How to communicate between GAMS and other applications
Submission of (Confidential) Models to Support Information on conversion of models for submission to GAMS support
GAMS Libraries
GAMS Model Library Library of example and other user-contributed GAMS models
GAMS Testlib Library Library of GAMS models for quality control and testing
Contributed GAMS documentation

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