Everything about AMPL

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: AMPLA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: A Mathematical Modeling Approach for Power Flow and State Estimation Analysis in Electric Power Systems through AMPLInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: AMPLE user's manualThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: AMPL: A Data-Driven Modeling Pipeline for Drug DiscoveryCited 87 times
5. Go sideways: Nl (format)A closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Algebraic modeling languageA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• AMPL: A Data-Driven Modeling Pipeline for Drug Discovery

  Amanda J. Minnich, Kevin McLoughlin, Margaret Tse · 2020 · Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling · 87 citations

• An Efficient Mathematical Model for Distribution System Reconfiguration Using AMPL

  Meisam Mahdavi, Hassan Haes Alhelou, Nikos D. Hatziargyriou · 2021 · IEEE Access · 81 citations

• Optimizing short-term production schedules in surface mining: Integrating mine modeling software with AMPL/CPLEX

  Martin L. Smith · 1998 · International Journal of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Environment · 31 citations

• The eight-channel ASIC bipolar transresistance amplifier D0M AMPL-8.3

  G.D. Alexeev, M.A. Baturitsky, O.V. Dvornikov · 2001 · Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment · 17 citations

• Thermodynamic assessment of orientationally disordered organic molecular crystals: Ternary system pentaerythritol–neopentylglycol–2-amino-2methyl-1,3, propanediol (PE–NPG–AMPL)

  Amrita Mishra, Anjali Talekar, Renhai Shi · 2014 · Calphad · 11 citations

• TACO: a toolkit for AMPL control optimization

  Christian Kirches, Sven Leyffer · 2013 · Mathematical Programming Computation · 10 citations

• Distributed Optimization on the Base of AMPL Modeling Language and Everest Platform

  Sergey Smirnov, Vladimir Voloshinov, Oleg Sukhoroslov · 2016 · Procedia Computer Science · 9 citations

• Using AMPL for Teaching the TSP

  Jon Lee, John F. Raffensperger · 2006 · INFORMS Transactions on Education · 9 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• A Mathematical Modeling Approach for Power Flow and State Estimation Analysis in Electric Power Systems through AMPL

  Hugo A. Ruiz Florez, Gloria P. López, Álvaro Jaramillo-Duque · 2022 · Electronics · 8 citations

• Comparative Analysis of the Julia and AMPL Computational Tools Used in the Radial Distribution Network Optimization Problem

  Juan Camilo Hoyos Vallejo, Jaime Quintero Restrepo · 2024 · Ingeniería · 3 citations

• AMPL: An adaptive meta-prompt learner for few-shot image classification

  Zhiping Wu, Lian Huai, Tong Liu · 2026 · Neural Networks · 3 citations

• Optimization of Blood Bag Distribution Routes Using AMPL Software and Nearest Neighbor Algorithm (Case Study of the Indonesian Red Cross Jakarta)

  Nafi Riska Fatahayu, Fuad Najib Waluya, Muhammad Fajril Atthoriq · 2022 · Jurnal Logistik Indonesia · 1 citations

• AMPL-Implementation for Models of Structural and Technological Changes

  Olena Volovyk, Oleksii Lykhovyd · 2025 · Cybernetics and Computer Technologies · 1 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕AMPLE user's manualMentor Graphics Corporation · 1993
• "A More Ample Ordination": Sermon in Reply to the "First Subsidiary Reason" Given by Wm. Bacon ...William Henry Rice , William Bacon Stevens · 1881

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