rmol 1.0.5.post1

Simple Python wrapper for RMOL

C++ library of Revenue Management and Optimisation Library

Summary

RMOL is a C++ library of Revenue Management and Optimisation classes and functions. Typically, that library may be used by service providers (e.g., airlines offering flight seats, hotels offering rooms, rental car companies offering rental days, broadcasting company offering advertisement slots, theaters offering seats, etc) to help in optimising their revenues from seat capacities. Most of the algorithms implemented are public and documented in the following book: The Theory and practice of Revenue Management, by Kalyan T. Talluri and Garrett J. van Ryzin, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004, ISBN 1-4020-7701-7

RMOL makes an extensive use of existing open-source libraries for increased functionality, speed and accuracy. In particular the Boost (C++ Standard Extensions: http://www.boost.org) library is used.

RMOL is the one of the components of the Travel Market Simulator (https://travel-sim.org). However, it may be used in a stand-alone mode.

Installation

On Fedora/CentOS/RedHat distribution

Just use DNF:

$ dnf -y install rmol-devel rmol-doc

You can also get the RPM packages (which may work on Linux distributions like Suse and Mandriva) from the Fedora repository (e.g., for Fedora 32, https://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/fedora/32/x86_64/)

Building the library and test binary from Git repository

The Git repository may be cloned as following:

$ git clone [e-mail]:airsim/rmol.git rmolgit # through SSH
$ git clone https://github.com/airsim/rmol.git # if the firewall filters SSH
$ cd rmolgit

Then, you need the following packages (Fedora/RedHat/CentOS names here, but names may vary according to distributions):

• cmake
• gcc-c++
• boost-devel / libboost-dev
• python-devel / python-dev
• gettext-devel / gettext
• sqlite3-devel / libsqlite3-dev
• readline-devel / libreadline-dev
• libncurses5-devel
• soci-mysql-devel, soci-sqlite3-devel
• stdair-devel / libstdair-dev
• airrac-devel / libairrac-dev
• doxygen, ghostscript, graphviz
• tetex-latex (optional)
• rpm-build (optional)

Building the library and test binary from the tarball

The latest stable source tarball (rmol*.tar.gz or .bz2) can be found on GitHub: http://github.com/airsim/rmol/releases, e.g., https://github.com/airsim/rmol/archive/rmol-1.00.6.tar.gz

To customise the following to your environment, you can alter the path to the installation directory:

export INSTALL_BASEDIR="${HOME}/dev/deliveries"
export RMOL_VER="1.00.6"
if [ -d /usr/lib64 ]; then LIBSUFFIX="64"; fi
export LIBSUFFIX_4_CMAKE="-DLIB_SUFFIX=$LIBSUFFIX"

Then, as usual:

• To configure the project, type something like:

  mkdir build && cd build
  cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${INSTALL_BASEDIR}/rmol-$RMOL_VER \
   -DWITH_STDAIR_PREFIX=${INSTALL_BASEDIR}/stdair-stable \
   -DWITH_AIRRAC_PREFIX=${INSTALL_BASEDIR}/airrac-stable \
   -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING=Debug -DENABLE_TEST:BOOL=ON -DINSTALL_DOC:BOOL=ON \
   -DRUN_GCOV:BOOL=OFF ${LIBSUFFIX_4_CMAKE} ..
   ${LIBSUFFIX_4_CMAKE} ..

• To build the project, type:

  make

• To test the project, type:

  make check

• To install the library (librmol*.so*) and the binary (rmol),

  make install
  cd ${INSTALL_BASEDIR}
  rm -f rmol-stable && ln -s rmol-${RMOL_VER} rmol-stable
  cd -

• To package the source files, type:

  make dist

• To package the binary and the (HTML and PDF) documentation:

  make package

• To browse the (just installed, if enabled) HTML documentation:

  midori file://${INSTALL_BASEDIR}/rmol-${RMOL_VER}/share/doc/rmol/html/index.html

• To browse the (just installed, if enabled) PDF documentation:

  evince ${INSTALL_BASEDIR}/rmol-${RMOL_VER}/share/doc/rmol/html/refman.pdf

• To run the local binary version:

  ./rmol/rmol -b

• To run the installed version:

  ${INSTALL_BASEDIR}/rmol-$RMOL_VER/bin/rmol -b

Denis Arnaud (June 2015)