Examples and Case Studies in Optimization

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``Consider everything. Keep the good. Avoid evil whenever you notice it.''
(1 Thess. 5:21-22)

This file is part of my global optimization web site.

The following is a result of responses to the following request to sci.op-research: ``I am looking for references to (electronically accessible) examples and case studies of applications of nonlinear programming to the real world, or simplified such problems, suitable for use in an (advanced) optimization course.''

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Problems I'd Like to See Treated

Guaranteeing bounds on uncertainty in metrology

Optimization Teaching Material

An Introductory Operations Research Course by J.E. Beasley

Optimization and Control Course by Richard Weber (and its table of contents ps-file)

Operations Research and Management Science Courses on the Web

OR teaching material available on the Web by the Operational Research Society

INFORMS Forum on Education

World Lecture Hall, with links to class materials on topics from A(ccounting) to Z(oology))

Puzzles and Paradoxes, a good place for finding neat integer programming instances

Web Pages With Applications

NEOS Guide: Case Studies (at Argonne National Laboratory)

Applications of Constrained Optimization Software (at Stanford University)

AMPL in Action

GAMS Model Library

Systems Analysis at Helsinki University of Technology

CUTE Collection of Applications
To get an idea of what is there, try to get the mastsif/ subdirectory. However, it has a directory size of 169K. So after waiting for a while, push the netscape stop button so that you can see at least the leading batch; then follow the links to a few random examples... If this is what you expected, you should get the collection by ftp and not via WWW. The directions are in the README file.

Studying how experts formulate models

MINPACK-2 Large-Scale Optimization Model Problems

Applications of Evolutionary Algorithms (ps.gz, 112K; by Bäck, Hoffmeister and Schwefel)

Unsolved Problems in Stochastic Optimization

Bibliography in Public Transportation (by Anita Schoebel)

Shape optimization

Transportation Network Operations

COKE: Efficient solving of complex assignment problems with the propose-and-exchange method (by K. Poeck and F. Puppe)

Optimisation of Mine Production Scheduling - The State of the Art (by Gordon Thomas)

GLOBSOL list of applications

Modelling by Genetic Programming