Web Site
The ILOG CPLEX Web site at http://www.ilog.com/products/cplex/ ftp site where you can pick up examples.
The technical support pages contain FAQ (Frequently Asked/Answered Questions) and the latest patches for some of our products. Access to these pages is restricted to owners of an ongoing maintenance contract. The maintenance contract number and the name of the person this contract is sent to in your company will be needed for access, as explained on the login page.
All three of the following sites contain the same information, but access is localized, so we recommend that you connect to the site corresponding to your location and select the "support" page from the home page.
On those Web pages, you will find additional information about ILOG CPLEX in technical papers that have also appeared at industrial and academic conferences.
In case you want to know more about optimization and mathematical or linear programming, here is a brief selection of printed resources:
Williams, H. P. Model Building in Mathematical Programming, 4th ed. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1999. This textbook includes many examples of how to design mathematical models, including linear programming formulations. (How you formulate your model is at least as important as what ILOG CPLEX does with it.) It also offers a description of the branch & bound algorithm.
Nemhauser, George L. and Laurence A. Wolsey, Integer and Combinatorial Optimization , New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1999. A reprint of the 1988 edition. A widely cited reference about integer programming, this book explains the branch & bound algorithm in detail.
Gill, Philip E., Walter Murray, and Margaret H. Wright, Practical Optimization . New York: Academic Press, 1982 reprint edition. This book covers, among other topics, quadratic programming.
