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 * '''Mar 19, 2010'''[[BR]]
   '''LEMON 1.2 released'''[[BR]]
   Major release with several new features and improvement. Please visit the [source:NEWS@3ed8f7c8bed8 NEWS] for more details.
 * '''Mar 8, 2010'''[[BR]]
   '''LEMON 1.1.2 and 1.0.5 released'''[[BR]]
   Minor bugfix releases. Please visit the [source:NEWS@86a880ba752d NEWS(1.1.2)] and [source:NEWS@50b6b66daafd NEWS(1.0.5)] files for more details on the changes.
 * '''Oct 3, 2009'''[[BR]]
   '''LEMON 1.1.1 released'''[[BR]]
   Bugfix release for version 1.1. Please visit the [source:NEWS@78b7231f0b2e NEWS] file for more details on the changes.
 * '''Jun 25, 2009'''[[BR]]
   '''LEMON project template'''[[BR]]
   This template allows you to easily set up your own LEMON based project.
   Click [ProjectTemplate here] for more details.
 * '''May 13, 2009'''[[BR]]
   '''LEMON 1.1 released'''[[BR]]
   This is a major release with tons of new features. Please visit the [source:NEWS@06f816565bef NEWS] file for more details on the changes.

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= Welcome to [http://www.coin-or.org/ COIN-OR]::[wiki:WikiStart LEMON] =

'''LEMON''' stands for '''L'''ibrary for '''E'''fficient '''M'''odeling and '''O'''ptimization in '''N'''etworks.
It is a C++ template library providing efficient implementations of common data structures and algorithms with focus on combinatorial optimization tasks connected mainly with graphs and networks.

'''LEMON''' is a member of the '''[http://www.coin-or.org/ COIN-OR initiative]''', a collection of [WikiPedia:Operations_Research OR] related [http://opensource.org/ open source] projects. 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 Loránd University, Budapest in 2003. Up to this point, the developers of the library work at the [http://www.elte.hu/en/ Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest] and at 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.
 * [http://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] -- A graph editor for LEMON.
 * [http://lime.cs.elte.hu/~alpar/hg/hgwebdir.cgi/pylemon/ pyLemon] -- A [http://www.python.org/ Python] language binding for LEMON.
 * [http://lemon.cs.elte.hu/svn/perl-lemon/ Perl-Lemon] -- A [http://www.perl.org/ Perl] language binding for LEMON.
 * [http://lemon.cs.elte.hu/svn/LemonRouting/ LemonRouting] -- Routing algorithms in telecommunication networks based on LEMON.

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