Besides this Welcome chapter, the OptQuest User Manual includes the following additional chapters and appendices:
This chapter contains a description of optimization models and their components.
Setting Up and Optimizing a Model
This chapter provides step-by-step instructions for setting up and running an optimization in OptQuest.
This chapter contains two tutorials designed to give you a quick overview of OptQuest’s features and to show you how to use the program. Read this chapter if you need a basic understanding of OptQuest.
This chapter contains a variety of examples to show the types of problems that OptQuest can solve.
This appendix describes different factors that enhance the performance of OptQuest’s features.
The appendix provides a summary of OptQuest’s menus and a list of the commands you can execute directly from the keyboard.
The appendix lists references describing OptQuest’s methodology, theory of operation, and comparisons to other optimization software packages. This appendix is designed for the advanced user.
This section is a compilation of terms specific to OptQuest as well as statistical terms used in this manual.