Preface to Release 3.0

Major enhancements in ABACUS 3.0 include the new solver interface to Osi, the ability to solve LPs with the Volume Algorithm and support for state-of-the-art GNU compilers. The documentation system has been changed from cweb to doxygen and the build process has been simplified. ABACUS 3.0 is released under the Gnu Lesser General Public License (LGPL). See section 3.1 for details.
We thank the members of Michael Jünger’s group for many stimulating discussions and valuable insights that helped improve the current release. Special thanks go to Christoph Buchheim, Frauke Liers, Thomas Lange (all University of Cologne) and Markus Chimani (University of Dortmund).

Köln, August 2007 Frank Baumann, Mark Sprenger and Andrea Wagner