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On-line Documentation

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

General GAMS documents
A GAMS Tutorial A Tutorial by Rick Rosenthal
GAMS - A User's Guide A User's Guide by Brooke, Kendrick, Meeraus, and Raman,
including these appendices:
  • Glossary
  • The GAMS Model Library
  • The GAMS Call
  • Dollar Control Options
  • The Option Statement
  • The Save and Restart Feature
  • Secure Work Files
  • Compressed and Encrypted Input Files
  • The GAMS Grid Computing Facility
  • Installation and System Notes
Expanded GAMS Guide (html) or (pdf) 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
Basic Solver Usage 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
GUROBI A large scale LP/MIP solver from GUROBI Optimization, Inc.
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
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)
Tools (included in the Distribution)
ASK The ASK Utility
GAMSIDE GAMS IDE Documentation
GDX2ACCESS Converts GDX data to MS Access tables
GDX2XLS Converts GDX data to MS Excel spreadsheets
GDXUTILS GAMS GDX facilities and tools
GDXVIEWER Views and converts data contained in GDX files
MDB2GMS Converts data from an Microsoft Access database into a GAMS readable format
SHELLEXECUTE Launches external programs from the command line
SQL2GMS Converts data from an SQL database into a GAMS readable format
XLS2GMS Converts spreadsheet data from a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet into a GAMS readable format.
Additional GAMS documents
FAQ Tips and Tricks - The Official GAMS FAQ
GAMS Posix Utilities GAMS Posix Utilities
GAMS/DEA Slice Modeling in GAMS
BCH Facility The GAMS Branch-and-Cut-and-Heuristic Facility
GAMS/LS A Linear Regression Solver for GAMS
Conic Programming Conic Programming in GAMS
Model Types Supported GAMS Model Types (LP, MIP, ...)
CNS Solving Constrained Nonlinear System (CNS) with GAMS
Sensitivity Analysis Sensitivity Analysis with GAMS and GAMS/CPLEX
External Functions How to include External functions in GAMS
GAMS/Excel Using GDXA Tutorial on how to read and write data with Excel using the GDX facilities
GAMS and Other Applications How to communicate between GAMS and other applications
The GAMS Runtime License Included in appendix F of the GAMS User's Guide
Submission of (Confidential) Models to Support Information on conversion of models for submission to GAMS support
GAMS Model 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
FINLIB Practical Financial Optimization Models by Consiglio, Nielsen and Zenios
GAMS Data Utilities The GAMS Data Utilities Library
Contributed GAMS documentation

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