Category Archives: Matlab

Geometric computation and plotting with Yalmip

Posted on April 20, 2012 by

Yalmip is modeling language in Matlab for mathematical optimization (or programming in the language of Operation Research). There are many excellent optimization solvers out there, for Matlah or not, commercial or free or open source. However, each of them uses … Continue reading →

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Grapher: a hidden treasure

Posted on October 29, 2011 by

From Mac OS X 10.4 onward, there is a software tool pre-installed called Grapher, hidden deep in /Applications/Utilities. Grapher is a graphing calculator, which allows users to plot many types of 2-D and 3-D graphs from data points, user-defined functions, … Continue reading →

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Introducing MLE+ 1.0

Posted on November 26, 2010 by

I have released a new Matlab toolbox: MLE+ 1.0. For more information, check out its web-page. MLE+ is a Matlab toolbox for co-simulation with the whole-building energy simulator EnergyPlus. It is designed for engineers and researchers who are familiar with … Continue reading →

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Short-circuit logical operators in Matlab

Posted on October 21, 2010 by

A “feature” of the Matlab language, as mentioned in its document (at least until version 2010b), is that in the condition expression of an if or a while statement, the element-wise conjunction operator (&) and disjunction operator (|) ALWAYS use short-circuiting. Thus, if func is a function, the … Continue reading →

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