Original Documentation can be found here.

NOMAD - Nonsmooth Optimization by Mesh Adaptive Direct search - V. 3.6.2 - 10/2014

Copyright (C) 2001-2013

• Mark Abramson - the Boeing Company, Seattle
• Charles Audet - Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal
• Gilles Couture - Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal
• John Dennis - Rice University, Houston
• Sebastien Le Digabel - Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal
• Christophe Tribes - Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal

Contact information:

Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal - GERAD
C.P. 6079, Succ. Centre-ville, Montreal (Quebec) H3C 3A7 Canada
e-mail: nomad@gerad.ca
phone : 1-514-340-6053 #6928
fax   : 1-514-340-5665

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 version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

• Mark A. Abramson (Mark.A.Abramson@boeing.com), The Boeing Company.

• Charles Audet (www.gerad.ca/Charles.Audet), GERAD and Departement de mathematiques et de genie industriel, ecole Polytechnique de Montreal.

• J.E. Dennis Jr. (www.caam.rice.edu/~dennis), Computational and Applied Mathematics Department, Rice University.

• Sebastien Le Digabel (www.gerad.ca/Sebastien.Le.Digabel), GERAD and Departement de mathematiques et de genie industriel, ecole Polytechnique de Montreal.

• Christophe Tribes, GERAD, Departement de mathematiques et de genie industriel, Department of mechanical engineering, ecole Polytechnique de Montreal.

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

The project started in 2001, and was funded in part by AFOSR, CRIAQ, FQRNT, LANL, NSERC, the Boeing Company, and ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company.

http://www.gerad.ca/nomad/

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...

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.

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.

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

• $NOMAD_HOME/doc/user_guide.pdf
• http://www.gerad.ca/NOMAD/Downloads/user_guide.pdf