Introduction

MatLabPlugin 4 CSTNU Tool is an open-source software that offers a class that implements the interface it.univr.di.cstnu.util.OptimizationEngine necessary to manipulate Probabilistic Simple Temporal Networks, represented by it.univr.di.cstnu.algorithms.PSTN.

This plugin works only with MatLab R2024b runtime library and CSTNU-Tool one.

CSTNU Tool contains the it.univr.di.cstnu.algorithms.PSTN class that can be used only if there is an implementation of the it.univr.di.cstnu.util.OptimizationEngine.

Since it.univr.di.cstnu.util.OptimizationEngine requires to solve a non-linear minimization problem and there is no full-fledged Java open-source library for this task, I decided to offer an implementation based on MatLab (there is a campus-licence at University of Verona) and make such implementation as a companion package in order to maintain the CSTNU-Tool not dependent on MatLab library.