/mocflp

Fork of BiUFLv2012, extended to Multi-Objective Capacitated Facility Location Problem

Primary LanguageC++GNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

/*
 #License and Copyright
 
 #Version : 1.1
 
 #This file is part of BiUFLv2012.
 
 #BiUFLv2012 is Copyright © 2012, University of Nantes
 
 #BiUFLv2012 is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 
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 #In addition, we kindly ask you to acknowledge BiUFLv2012 and its authors in any program or publication in which you use BiUFLv2012. (You are not required to do so; it is up to your common sense to decide whether you want to comply with this request or not.) For general publications, we suggest referencing:  BiUFLv2012, MSc ORO, University of Nantes.
 
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These instructions are for UNIX-like systems (Linux, Mac OS X) only.

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You need to execute this software :
	
1. 	A compiler GCC

	works on version 4.6.3 and older since the software uses 
	Standard Template Library (STL)
	
2. 	gnuplot

	works on version 4.4

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You can obtain the source code for the BiUFLP software by this way :
	
1. 	Obtain the source directly from the subversion repository.
	For this you needs the program 'svn' installed on
   	your machine.

	Assuming that you want to download the code into a subdirectory
	"BiUFLP", you type

	svn checkout https://subversion.assembla.com/svn/biuflv2012/

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In the directory where you downloaded the source

1. 	Compile the code and generate the executable by typing

	make

	After this, you will find the executable in the "bin" subdirectory.

2. 	To delete the executable, compilation files and plots file

	make clear

3. 	To delete plots file

	make clean
	
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/src		
			The sources of the code.

/dat		
			Instances for the program. Please read the README file 
			inside to know a bit more about the origin of theses 
			instances.

/plot		
			A shell script and gnuplot files to plot the results.

/doc		
			A doxygen documentation in HTML and LaTeX.
			HTML : please open /doc/html/index.html in a browser
			LaTeX : please open /doc/latex/refman.pdf

/conferences
			A folder which contains two presentations concerning
			this project.

>> AFTER COMPILATION

/bin		
			The directory where you will find the binary of the 
			program (BiUFLP).

/obj		
			The objects files due to the compilation.

/res		
			The subdirectory where you will find the result files 
			(after enabling the export option).

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In the directory where you downloaded the source

1. 	To execute the software

	./bin/BiUFLPv2012

2. 	To print the help

	./bin/BiUFLPv2012 --help

3. 	To execute the software with an instance file

	./bin/BiUFLPv2012 <path of the instance>
	
	e.g. : ./bin/BiUFLP dat/TEST5-10.txt
	
4. 	To execute the software with an instance file and options

	./bin/BiUFLPv2012 <path of the instance> [- options]
	
	OPTIONS AVAILABLE
	-f : execute the filtering method
	-r : execute the reconstruction method
	--verbose : print detailled informations about the execution
	--export : export result files and plot files in the directories
	 /res, /plot respectively.
	
	e.g. : ./bin/BiUFLP dat/TEST5-10.txt -f -r --export