ALPS Version 0.6 README
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Welcome to Alps. Alps is distributed under the Common Public License Version
1.0 and is freely redistributable. All source code and documentation is
Copyright 2001-2006 byLehigh University, Yan Xu, Ted Ralphs, Matthew Saltzman
and others. This README may be distributed freely.


WHAT IS KNAP
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Knap is an example of the applications developed on top of Alps (See 
the README of Alps to know what Alps is). Knap is a branch and bound 
based solver to solve Knapsack problems.


DOCUMENTATION
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The html documentation of the classes in Alps (See INSTALL of Alps) can 
be created. A user's guide that is under preparation that can help 
users to develop an application.


INSTALLATION
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Please see the INSTALL file for a guide to install Knap.


CURRENT TESTING STATUS
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1. Configurations
   - Serial: Well tested.
   - LAMMPI: Well tested.
   - MPICH: Well tested.


SUPPORT
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1. Authors

Yan Xu (yan.xu@sas.com)
Ted Ralphs (tkralphs@lehigh.edu), Project Manager
Laci Ladanyi (ladanyi@us.ibm.com)
Matt Saltzman (mjs@clemson.edu)

2. List Serve

Alps users should use the Coin-Discuss mailing list. To subscribe, go to 
http://list.coin-or.org/mailman/listinfo/coin-discuss

3. Bug Reports

Bug reports should be posted to the Coin-Discuss mailing list (see above).
