COCONUT

COntinuous CONstraints - Updating the Technology

COCONUT is an IST Project funded by the European Union. Its goal is to integrate the currently available techniques from mathematical programming, constraint programming, and interval analysis into a single discipline, to get algorithms for global optimization and continuous constraint satisfaction problems that outperform the current generation of algorithms based on using only techniques from one or two of the traditions.

  • Publications related to COCONUT activities

  • The COCONUT environment

  • COCONUT discussion forum (access restricted)

  • Detailed Project Description

  • Participants

  • The COCONUT benchmark
    over 1000 constrained global optimization problems in AMPL, GAMS and DAG format

  • Algorithms for Solving Nonlinear Constrained and Optimization Problems: The State of the Art
    A 222 page progress report of the COCONUT project

  • Cocos'03, 2nd International Workshop on Global Constrained Optimization and Constraint Satisfaction, Lausanne (Switzerland), 18-21 November 2003

  • Cocos'02, 1st International Workshop on Global Constrained Optimization and Constraint Satisfaction, Valbonne - Sophia Antipolis, France, 2-4 October 2002

  • Slides of Cocos'02 Invited Talks

  • Competitive Global Optimization Codes

  • Global (and Local) Optimization

    Online guide to constraint programming
    (quite thorough, but for the descrete case only)

  • Other Useful Links
    Global Search, As Timely As Ever
    ``Test everything. Hold on to the good. Avoid every kind of evil.''
    (1 Thess. 5:21-22)