Going further
Installation, licensing, and trouble shooting
Detailed information on how to install Xpress-MP is provided with every distribution. The `Licensing User Guide' can also be downloaded from the client area of the Dash website. To obtain a license key please contact your nearest Dash sales office.
Should you encounter any problems with installing the software or setting up the license, please contact Dash support:
You may also consult the FAQs in the client area of the Dash website:
http://www.dashoptimization.com/home/secure/FAQ
The FAQs also include a collection of program examples, modeling tricks, and efficiency considerations.
User guides, reference manuals, and other publications
Under the following address you may find a collection of white papers on various topics:
http://www.dashoptimization.com/home/services/publications/support_papers.html
Modeling
The book `Applications of Optimization with Xpress-MP' (Dash Optimization, 2002) shows how to formulate and solve a large number of application problems with Xpress:
http://www.dashoptimization.com/applications_book.html
Mosel
For a more in-depth introduction to working with Mosel, we suggest to read the `Mosel User Guide'.
The `Mosel Language Reference Manual' provides a complete documentation of the Mosel language, also including the features defined by the modules of the Mosel distribution (mmxprs, mmodbc, mmive, etc.).
The Mosel Compiler and Mosel Run-time libraries are documented in the `Mosel Libraries Reference Manual'.
To learn how to implement your own Mosel modules, please refer to the `Mosel NI User Guide'.
The Mosel Native Interface is documented in the `Mosel NI Reference Manual'.
BCL
The `BCL Reference Manual' contains further examples of the use of BCL and a complete documentation of all C library functions and C++ classes.
For Java, a separate `Java on-line documentation' is available.
Optimizer
All functions of the Optimizer library are documented in the `Optimizer Reference Manual'. In this manual you also find exhaustive lists of all problem attributes and control parameters that may be used with Xpress-Optimizer.
Other solvers and solution methods
The Xpress-MP suite comprises some other products that have not been mentioned in this manual since they are typically reserved for more advanced uses. Each of these components comes with its own documentation. However, reading the introduction to Mosel in the first part of this manual is recommended to all first-time users who wish to employ these other products as Mosel modules.
Successive Linear Programming (SLP) is a method for solving Non-linear Programming problems to (local) optimality. The Xpress-SLP solver is provided in the form of a Mosel module, mmxslp, or as a library. For further detail see the `Xpress-SLP Reference Manual'.
Stochastic Programming (SP) captures the fact that data in an application is often subject to uncertainties. The Xpress-SP software comes in the form of a Mosel module, mmsp, that allows the user to work with scenario trees for representing SP problems. Its use is explained in the `Xpress-SP Reference Manual'.
If you have any comments or suggestions about these pages, please send mail to docs@dashoptimization.com.