Max-plus library

Martin Manns mmanns at gmx.net
Tue Oct 17 09:44:04 EDT 2006


Sébastien Boisgérault wrote:
> 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 ...
> 

Thank you for the fast replies. Since I currently have not the time to
write bindings, I will probably have to stick to the Matlab implementation.

Martin



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