[Octave-cvsupdate] SF.net SVN: octave:[10513] trunk/octave-forge/main/optim

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Revision: 10513
          http://octave.svn.sourceforge.net/octave/?rev=10513&view=rev
Author:   i7tiol
Date:     2012-05-24 06:50:59 +0000 (Thu, 24 May 2012)
Log Message:
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Updated NEWS and nonlin_min help.

Modified Paths:
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    trunk/octave-forge/main/optim/INDEX
    trunk/octave-forge/main/optim/NEWS
    trunk/octave-forge/main/optim/inst/nonlin_min.m

Modified: trunk/octave-forge/main/optim/INDEX
===================================================================
--- trunk/octave-forge/main/optim/INDEX	2012-05-24 06:03:47 UTC (rev 10512)
+++ trunk/octave-forge/main/optim/INDEX	2012-05-24 06:50:59 UTC (rev 10513)
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
  fminsearch
  cg_min
  de_min
+ nonlin_min
 Data fitting
  expfit
  wpolyfit

Modified: trunk/octave-forge/main/optim/NEWS
===================================================================
--- trunk/octave-forge/main/optim/NEWS	2012-05-24 06:03:47 UTC (rev 10512)
+++ trunk/octave-forge/main/optim/NEWS	2012-05-24 06:50:59 UTC (rev 10513)
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
  ** The following functions are new optim 1.1.0:
 
-      powell cauchy
+      powell cauchy nonlin_min
 
  ** The following functions have been deprecated since they have been
     implemented in Octave core:
@@ -23,6 +23,23 @@
 
       deriv   linprog
 
- ** The function `line_min' has a configurable setpesize and max evals
+ ** The function `line_min' has a configurable setpesize and max evals.
 
+ ** Added possibility to restrict a parameter to samin.
+
  ** Package is no longer automatically loaded.
+
+
+Some important changes of the last versions of optim before 1.1.0:
+------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+ ** New functions:
+
+      jacobs: complex step derivative approximation
+
+      nonlin_residmin, nonlin_curvefit: Frontends with a general
+      interface for constrained residual-based optimization. They
+      allow a.o. optimization of structure-based named parameters or
+      parameter-arrays. A backend is included, which is derived from
+      the algorithm of leasqr, but enables feasible-path optimization
+      with linear and general constraints.

Modified: trunk/octave-forge/main/optim/inst/nonlin_min.m
===================================================================
--- trunk/octave-forge/main/optim/inst/nonlin_min.m	2012-05-24 06:03:47 UTC (rev 10512)
+++ trunk/octave-forge/main/optim/inst/nonlin_min.m	2012-05-24 06:50:59 UTC (rev 10513)
@@ -17,13 +17,14 @@
 ## @deftypefn {Function File} {[@var{p}, @var{objf}, @var{cvg}, @var{outp}] =} nonlin_min (@var{f}, @var{pin})
 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {[@var{p}, @var{objf}, @var{cvg}, @var{outp}] =} nonlin_min (@var{f}, @var{pin}, @var{settings})
 ##
-## Frontend for nonlinear minimization of a scalar objective function.
-## The functions supplied by the user have a minimal interface; any
-## additionally needed constants can be supplied by wrapping the user
-## functions into anonymous functions.
+## Frontend for constrained nonlinear minimization of a scalar objective
+## function. The functions supplied by the user have a minimal
+## interface; any additionally needed constants can be supplied by
+## wrapping the user functions into anonymous functions.
 ##
 ## At the moment there is only a stochastic backend implemented, so that
-## some settings in the frontend have no use.
+## some settings in the frontend have no use. A backend for
+## feasible-path sequential quadratic programming is being worked on.
 ##
 ## The following description applies to usage with vector-based
 ## parameter handling. Differences in usage for structure-based

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