Summary

In the previous sections a brief introduction is provided to the most common features of the FICO Xpress Optimizer and its most general usage. The reader should now be familiar with the main routines in the Optimizer library. These routines allow a user to create problem pointers and load problems into these problem pointers. The reader should be familiar with the requirements for setting up message handling with the Optimizer library. Also the reader should know how to run the optimization algorithms on the loaded problems and be familiar with the various ways that results can be accessed.

Examples of using the Optimizer are available from a number of sources, most notably from FICO Xpress Getting Started manual. This provides a straight forward, "hands–on" approach to the FICO Xpress Optimization Suite and it is highly recommended that users read the relevant chapters before considering the reference manuals. Additionally, more advanced, examples may be downloaded from the website.