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 \page quicktour Quick Tour to LEMON

 Let us first answer the question <b>"What do I want to use LEMON for?"

 </b>. 

 LEMON is a C++ library, so you can use it if you want to write C++ 

 programs. What kind of tasks does the library LEMON help to solve? 

 It helps to write programs that solve optimization problems that arise

 frequently when <b>designing and testing certain networks</b>, for example

 in telecommunication, computer networks, and other areas that I cannot

 think of now. A very natural way of modelling these networks is by means

 of a <b> graph</b> (we will always mean a directed graph by that and say

 <b> undirected graph </b> otherwise). 

 So if you want to write a program that works with 

 graphs then you might find it useful to use our library LEMON. LEMON 

 defines various graph concepts depending on what you want to do with the 

 graph: a very good description can be found in the page

 about \ref graphs "graphs".

 You will also want to assign data to the edges or nodes of the graph, for

 example a length or capacity function defined on the edges. You can do this in

 LEMON using so called \b maps. You can define a map on the nodes or on the edges of the graph and the value of the map (the range of the function) can be practically almost of any type. Read more about maps \ref maps-page "here".

 In this quick tour we want to show you some facilities LEMON library can provide through examples (simple demo programs). The examples will only show part of the functionality, but links will always be given to reach complete details. 

 You will find links next to the code fragments that help to download full demo programs: save them on your computer and compile them according to the description in the page about \ref getstart "How to start using LEMON". 

 Have fun!

 <ul> <li> The first thing to discuss is the way one can create data structures

 like graphs and maps in a program using LEMON. 

 //There are more graph types

 //implemented in LEMON and you can implement your own graph type just as well:

 //read more about this in the already mentioned page on \ref graphs "graphs".

 First we show how to add nodes and edges to a graph manually. We will also

 define a map on the edges of the graph. After this we show the way one can

 read a graph (and perhaps maps on it) from a stream (e.g. a file). Of course

 we also have routines that write a graph (and perhaps maps) to a stream

 (file): this will also be shown. LEMON supports the DIMACS file formats to

 store network optimization problems, but more importantly we also have our own

 file format that gives a more flexible way to store data related to network

 optimization.

 <ol> <li>The following code fragment shows how to fill a graph with

 data. It creates a complete graph on 4 nodes. The type Listgraph is one of the

 LEMON graph types: the typedefs in the beginning are for convenience and we

 will suppose them later as well.  

 \dontinclude hello_lemon.cc

 \skip ListGraph

 \until addEdge

 See the whole program in file \ref hello_lemon.cc in \c demo subdir of

 LEMON package.

     If you want to read more on the LEMON graph structures and

 concepts, read the page about \ref graphs "graphs".

 <li> The following code shows how to read a graph from a stream

 (e.g. a file) in the DIMACS file format (find the documentation of the

 DIMACS file formats on the web).

 \code

 Graph g;

 std::ifstream f("graph.dim");

 readDimacs(f, g);

 \endcode

 One can also store network (graph+capacity on the edges) instances and

 other things (minimum cost flow instances etc.) in DIMACS format and

 use these in LEMON: to see the details read the documentation of the

 \ref dimacs.h "Dimacs file format reader". There you will also find

 the details about the output routines into files of the DIMACS format.

 <li>DIMACS formats could not give us the flexibility we needed,

 so we worked out our own file format. Instead of any explanation let us give a

 short example file in this format: read the detailed description of the LEMON

 graph file format and input-output routines \ref graph-io-page here.

 So here is a file describing a graph of 10 nodes (0 to 9), two nodemaps

 (called \c coordinates_x and \c coordinates_y), several edges, an edge map

 called \c length and two designated nodes (called \c source and \c target).

 \todo Maybe a shorter example would be better here.

 \include route.lgf

 Finally let us give a simple example that reads a graph from a file and writes

 it to the standard output.

 \include reader_writer_demo.cc

 See the whole program in file \ref reader_writer_demo.cc.

 \todo This is still under construction!

 </ol>

 <li> If you want to solve some transportation problems in a network then 

 you will want to find shortest paths between nodes of a graph. This is 

 usually solved using Dijkstra's algorithm. A utility

 that solves this is  the \ref lemon::Dijkstra "LEMON Dijkstra class".

 The following code is a simple program using the 

 \ref lemon::Dijkstra "LEMON Dijkstra class" and it also shows how to define a map on the edges (the length

 function):

 \dontinclude dijkstra_demo.cc

 \skip ListGraph

 \until std::cout << g.id(s)

 See the whole program in \ref dijkstra_demo.cc.

 The first part of the code is self-explanatory: we build the graph and set the

 length values of the edges. Then we instantiate a member of the Dijkstra class

 and run the Dijkstra algorithm from node \c s. After this we read some of the

 results. 

 You can do much more with the Dijkstra class, for example you can run it step

 by step and gain full control of the execution. For a detailed description, see the documentation of the \ref lemon::Dijkstra "LEMON Dijkstra class".

 <li> If you want to design a network and want to minimize the total length

 of wires then you might be looking for a <b>minimum spanning tree</b> in

 an undirected graph. This can be found using the Kruskal algorithm: the 

 function \ref lemon::kruskal "LEMON Kruskal ..." does this job for you.

 The following code fragment shows an example:

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 <li>Many problems in network optimization can be formalized by means

 of a linear programming problem (LP problem, for short). In our

 library we decided not to write an LP solver, since such packages are

 available in the commercial world just as well as in the open source

 world, and it is also a difficult task to compete these. Instead we

 decided to develop an interface that makes it easier to use these

 solvers together with LEMON. The advantage of this approach is

 twofold. Firstly our C++ interface is more comfortable than the

 solvers' native interface. Secondly, changing the underlying solver in

 a certain software using LEMON's LP interface needs zero effort. So,

 for example, one may try his idea using a free solver, demonstrate its

 usability for a customer and if it works well, but the performance

 should be improved, then one may decide to purchase and use a better

 commercial solver.

 So far we have an

 interface for the commercial LP solver software \b CPLEX (developed by ILOG)

 and for the open source solver \b GLPK (a shorthand for Gnu Linear Programming

 Toolkit).

 We will show two examples, the first one shows how simple it is to formalize

 and solve an LP problem in LEMON, while the second one shows how LEMON

 facilitates solving network optimization problems using LP solvers.

 <ol>

 <li>The following code shows how to solve an LP problem using the LEMON lp

 interface. The code together with the comments is self-explanatory.

 \code

   //A default solver is taken

   LpDefault lp;

   typedef LpDefault::Row Row;

   typedef LpDefault::Col Col;

   //This will be a maximization

   lp.max();

   //We add coloumns (variables) to our problem

   Col x1 = lp.addCol();

   Col x2 = lp.addCol();

   Col x3 = lp.addCol();

   //Constraints

   lp.addRow(x1+x2+x3 <=100);  

   lp.addRow(10*x1+4*x2+5*x3<=600);  

   lp.addRow(2*x1+2*x2+6*x3<=300);  

   //Nonnegativity of the variables

   lp.colLowerBound(x1, 0);

   lp.colLowerBound(x2, 0);

   lp.colLowerBound(x3, 0);

   //Objective function

   lp.setObj(10*x1+6*x2+4*x3);

   //Call the routine of the underlying LP solver

   lp.solve();

   //Print results

   if (lp.primalStatus()==LpSolverBase::OPTIMAL){

     printf("Z = %g; x1 = %g; x2 = %g; x3 = %g\n", 

 	   lp.primalValue(), 

 	   lp.primal(x1), lp.primal(x2), lp.primal(x3));

   }

   else{

     std::cout<<"Optimal solution not found!"<<std::endl;

   }

 \endcode

 See the whole code in \ref lp_demo.cc.

 <li>The second example shows how easy it is to formalize a max-flow

 problem as an LP problem using the LEMON LP interface: we are looking

 for a real valued function defined on the edges of the digraph

 satisfying the nonnegativity-, the capacity constraints and the

 flow-conservation constraints and giving the largest flow value

 between to designated nodes.

 In the following code we suppose that we already have the graph \c g,

 the capacity map \c cap, the source node \c s and the target node \c t

 in the memory. We will also omit the typedefs.

 \code

   //Define a map on the edges for the variables of the LP problem

   typename G::template EdgeMap<LpDefault::Col> x(g);

   lp.addColSet(x);

   //Nonnegativity and capacity constraints

   for(EdgeIt e(g);e!=INVALID;++e) {

     lp.colUpperBound(x[e],cap[e]);

     lp.colLowerBound(x[e],0);

   }

   //Flow conservation constraints for the nodes (except for 's' and 't')

   for(NodeIt n(g);n!=INVALID;++n) if(n!=s&&n!=t) {

     LpDefault::Expr ex;

     for(InEdgeIt  e(g,n);e!=INVALID;++e) ex+=x[e];

     for(OutEdgeIt e(g,n);e!=INVALID;++e) ex-=x[e];

     lp.addRow(ex==0);

   }

   //Objective function: the flow value entering 't'

   {

     LpDefault::Expr ex;

     for(InEdgeIt  e(g,t);e!=INVALID;++e) ex+=x[e];

     for(OutEdgeIt e(g,t);e!=INVALID;++e) ex-=x[e];

     lp.setObj(ex);

   }

   //Maximization

   lp.max();

   //Solve with the underlying solver

   lp.solve();

 \endcode

 The complete program can be found in file \ref lp_maxflow_demo.cc. After compiling run it in the form:

 <tt>./lp_maxflow_demo < sample.lgf</tt>

 where sample.lgf is a file in the lemon format containing a maxflow instance (designated "source", "target" nodes and "capacity" map on the edges).

 </ol>

 </ul>

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