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#  NOMAD - Nonlinear Optimization by Mesh Adaptive Direct search - version 3.7.3      #
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#  NOMAD - version 3.7.3 has been created by                                          #
#	          Charles Audet        - Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal              #
#	          Sebastien Le Digabel - Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal              #
#	          Christophe Tribes    - Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal              #
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#  The copyright of NOMAD - version 3.7.3 is owned by                                 #
#                 Sebastien Le Digabel - Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal              #
#                 Christophe Tribes    - Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal              #
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#  NOMAD v3 has been funded by AFOSR and Exxon Mobil.                                 #
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#  NOMAD v3 is a new version of Nomad v1 and v2. Nomad v1 and v2 were created and     #
#  developed by Mark A. Abramson from The Boeing Company, Charles Audet and           #
#  Gilles Couture from Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, and John E. Dennis Jr. from   #
#  Rice University, and were funded by AFOSR and Exxon Mobil.                         #
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#    Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal - GERAD                                          #
#    C.P. 6079, Succ. Centre-ville, Montreal (Quebec) H3C 3A7 Canada                  #
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#    phone : 1-514-340-6053 #6928                                                     #
#    fax   : 1-514-340-5665                                                           #
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#  This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the  #
#  terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software   #
#  Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later         #
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#  You can find information on the NOMAD software at www.gerad.ca/nomad               #
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    DESCRIPTION :

NOMAD is a C++ implementation of the Mesh Adaptive Direct Search (MADS) algorithm,
designed for constrained optimization of black-box functions.


     WEB PAGE :

https://www.gerad.ca/nomad/


     FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS :

Please visit the web page for futher instruction on the following:

  * Downloading, configuring, compiling, and installing NOMAD
  * Using NOMAD and setting the parameters
  * Reports on NOMAD
  * How to report bugs and make enhancement requests
  * And more...


     BATCH OR LIBRARY MODE :

NOMAD is designed to be used in two different modes : batch and library.
The batch mode is intended for a basic ans simple usage of the MADS method,
while the library mode allows more flexibility.
For example, in batch mode, users must define their separate black-box program,
that will be called with system calls by NOMAD.
In library mode, users can define their black-box function as C++ code
that will be directly called by NOMAD, without system calls and temporary files.


     TYPES OF USE :

There are two ways of using NOMAD, one can directly use an executable or compile
the source code.

NOMAD batch mode executable is located in directory $NOMAD_HOME/bin or %NOMAD_HOME%\bin.
In order to avoid compiling the code, you can simply use this executable.


     HOW TO EXECUTE NOMAD :

For informations about the execution of NOMAD, please read the user guide :

  $NOMAD_HOME/doc/user_guide.pdf or %NOMAD_HOME%\doc\user_guide.pdf

or

  https://www.gerad.ca/NOMAD/Downloads/user_guide.pdf