External Sources of Numerical Optimization Information

Here are a few interesting titbits concerning numerical optimization/ mathematical programming:
 

• Opt-Net
• The Mathematical Programming Society
• SIAM activity group on optimization
• Linear programming frequently-asked questions - hypertext or plaintext
• Nonlinear programming frequently-asked questions - hypertext or plaintext
• Optimization Online
• The Optimization Technology Center with its guide to optimization software
• The Network-Enabled Optimization System - you must try this!!!
• The e-optimization community
• A Decision Tree for Optimization Software from Arizona State University; associated Benchmarks for Optimization Software
• The Computational Optimization and Applications Software Forum.
• A list of codes for optimization and related fields by Jiefeng Xu
• Linear programming codes: LOQO, LIPSOL, HOPDM, BPMPD, PCx, SoPlex
• Linear programming test problems: Netlib, Maros and Meszaros's and the U. of Iowa collections
• Mixed integer linear programming test problems: MIPLIB
• Linear network programming codes: MCF
• Linear and convex programming codes: MOSEK
• Quadratic programming codes: LOQO, QPB/QPA (see also our quadratic programming page)
• Quadratic programming test examples: Maros and Meszaros's and the U. of Iowa sets
• Bound constrained minimization codes: TRON
• Nonlinear programming codes: filterSQP, FSQP, HQP, IPOPT, KNITRO, LANCELOT, LANCELOT B, LOQO, MINOS, SNOPT, OPT++.
• Nonlinear programming test problems: Hock & Schittkowski and Schittkowski, CUTEr, AMPL, PCOMP, COPS collections
• Global optimization codes: MCS
• Derivative-free codes: APPSPACK, MIDACO
• Nonsmooth optimization codes: SolvOpt
• Semi-infinite programming codes: NSIPS
• Semi-infinite programming test problems: SIPAMPL
• Semi-definite programming codes: CSDP, LMITOOL, PENNON, SDPHA, SDPpack, SDPT3, SeDuMi.
• Semi-definite programming test problems: SDPLIB
• Stochastic optimizattion test examples: U. Florida set
• The TOMLAB optimization environment in Matlab
• OptSolve++, C++ libraries for nonlinear optimization
• MINOPT: a modeling language and algorithmic framework for linear, mixed-integer, nonlinear, dynamic, and mixed-integer nonlinear optimization
• An on-line optimization system for mixed-integer linear programming
• Our quadratic programming page
• Multidisciplinary Optimization Test Suite
• PDE-Constrained Optimization test problems
• The Interior Point Archive
• The complementarity problem NET
• The IFIP working group 7.4 on discrete optimization
• DONET, a consortium of European research institutes on discrete optimization
• A computational supplement on combinatorial optimization by Jon Lee
• A global optimization page and another
• A compendium of NP optimization problems
• Tools for automatic differentiation and structured automatic differentiation
• PGAPack, a general-purpose, data-structure-neutral, parallel genetic algorithm library
• AMPL: a modeling language for mathematical programming; frequently-asked questions
• The IBM Optimization Subroutine Library (OSL) and its guide and reference manual
• CPLEX Optimization, Inc.
• LINDO Systems Optimization Products
• Maximal Software, Inc.
• Center for Wave Phenomena Object-Oriented Optimization Library (COOOL)
• INFORMS Online, the Web site of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
• The Operations Research Society
• Michael Trick's Operations Research Page
• Harvey Greenberg's Mathematical Programming Glossary and Myths and Counterexamples
• A list of optimization people