The AMPL Book

AMPL: A Modeling Language
for Mathematical Programming

by Robert Fourer, David M. Gay, and Brian W. Kernighan

Duxbury Press / Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, 2002

Second edition now available
517 + xxi pp., ISBN 0-534-38809-4, $53.95

Look it over --   View the table of contents and all of the first chapter. Buy it -- Ships within 2-3 days (when in stock) from our optimization bookstore. Also available direct from the publisher at 10% off plus shipping and tax Download the software --   Solve and analyze optimization problems up to 300 variables and constraints on all popular platforms. Publication history -- Check for latest information on availability. Examples -- On-line copies of all sample models and data. Guide to exercises Notice to users of AMPL Plus software included in the first edition: You will need to shift to an alternative version to use AMPL in 2003.

A comprehensive guide to building optimization models, for beginning or experienced users Written by the creators of AMPL, this book is a complete guide for modelers at all levels of experience. It begins with a tutorial on widely used linear programming models and presents all of AMPL's features for linear programming with extensive examples. Additional chapters cover network, nonlinear, piecewise-linear, and integer programming; database and spreadsheet interactions; and command scripts. Most chapters include exercises. Download free "student editions" of AMPL with MINOS, CPLEX, and other solvers for experiment, evaluation, and education. All are full-featured except for a limit of 300 variables and 300 constraints plus objectives. They complement the book for use in teaching, for self-paced instruction, and for evaluating the AMPL system. Student software is not shipped with the second edition of the book. The latest version of the AMPL student edition is always available for download, for a variety of platforms including Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and Unix on popular workstations. Solver downloads are also available for a range of platforms.

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