Bug#780516: ITP: toulbar2 -- An exact optimization solver for Graphical Models.

[Thomas Schiex <empnessty@gmail.com>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Thomas Schiex <empnessty@gmail.com>

* Package name    : toulbar2
  Version         : 0.9.8
  Upstream Author : Simon de Givry <Simon.deGivry@toulouse.inra.fr>
* URL             : https://mulcyber.toulouse.inra.fr/projects/toulbar2/
* License         : GPL
  Programming Lang: C++
  Description     : An exact optimization solver for Graphical Models.

Toulbar2 is an exact combinatorial optimization tool for problems
defined as Graphical Models such as Cost Function Networks, Markov
Random Fields, Weighted Constraint Satisfaction Problems and Bayesian
Nets. It includes many recent state of the art algorithms, has won
several optimization competitions and used to solve different real
life scientific problems.

This software is a scientific optimization software. It is unique in
its capabilities, although it is related to software such as OpenGM2
(http://hci.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/opengm2/) or daoopt
(https://github.com/lotten/daoopt). It has been used to tackled
different real life optimization problems especially in scientific
areas such as genetics and computation protein design. 

As the most active developpers of toulbar2, we intend to maintain and
package it. We do not need co-maintainers and don't know if a sponsor
is needed.