Max-plus library

[Sébastien Boisgérault]

Robert Kern wrote:
> Martin Manns wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Is there any library that allows employing max-plus dioids in
> > python (e.g. based on numpy/scipy)?
>
> Google says "no" and I haven't heard of any, so I imagine that there aren't.
> There might be something buried in some of the control theory packages, but as I
> neither know what max-plus dioids are, nor have I any current interest in them,
> I can't give you any better pointers.

See http://cermics.enpc.fr/~cohen-g//SED/index-e.html for a two-page
introduction to the field and its applications. Definitely worth a look
IMHO.

The second software you refer to
(http://www-rocq.inria.fr/MaxplusOrg/soft.html) is a Scilab package but
essentially made of C and Fortran files. Getting a working binding for
Python may not be that hard ...

Cheers,

SB

>
> --
> Robert Kern
>
> "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
>   that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
>   an underlying truth."
>    -- Umberto Eco