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= News =
 * '''Oct 13, 2008'''[[BR]]
   '''LEMON 1.0 released'''[[BR]]
   This is the first stable release of LEMON.

 * '''Dec 12, 2007'''[[BR]]
   Start the development of LEMON 1.x series with stable public API.
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= Welcome to LEMON =

'''LEMON''' stands for '''L'''ibrary of '''E'''fficient '''M'''odels and '''O'''ptimization in '''N'''etworks.
It is a C++ template library aimed at combinatorial optimization tasks, especially those working with graphs and networks.

'''LEMON''' is an [http://opensource.org/ open source] project. You are free to use it in your commercial or non-commercial applications under very permissive [wiki:License license terms].

The project was launched by the [http://www.cs.elte.hu/egres/ Egerváry Research Group on Combinatorial Optimization (EGRES)] at the Operations Research Department of the Eötvös University, Budapest in 2003. The project is led by Alpár Jüttner. Up to this point the developers of the library work in the [http://www.elte.hu/ Eötvös University, Budapest] and in the [http://portal.bme.hu/langs/en/default.aspx Budapest University of Technology and Economics].

== Starting Points ==

 * [wiki:Documentation] -- Browse the documentation.
 * [wiki:LocalSite Local site] -- Some local information in Hungarian related to the LEMON team.
 * [wiki:TracStart Trac guide] -- Built-in documentation of Trac.
 * [https://lemon.cs.elte.hu/site The old webpage] -- Quite obsolete, but still contains some useful info about the 0.x series of LEMON.

== Related Projects ==

 * [http://lemon.cs.elte.hu/hg/glemon gLemon]
 * Perl-Lemon
 * [http://lime.cs.elte.hu/~alpar/hgwebdir.cgi/pylemon pyLemon]
 * !LemonRouting

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