Topics related to Optimization

Global Search, As Timely As Ever

``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. It contains sections on

Constraint Satisfaction

Sensitivity Analysis

Stochastic Programming

Multiobjective Programming

Optimal Scheduling

Automatic Differentiation

Fuzzy Logic

Neural Nets

Modeling Languages and Programming Environments

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Constraint Satisfaction

Online Computer Science Degree Guide: Constraint Programming

Constraints Archive ``including a directory of people interested in constraints, constraint bibliographies, a collection of on-line papers, a variety of systems and benchmarks''

Constraint satisfaction FAQ, Part 1

Commercially Available Constraint Programming Tools

Constrained Logic Programming
(get the index file first)

Sensitivity Analysis

Bibliography for Optimization with Sensitivity Analysis

Stochastic Programming

Stochastic Programming (NEOS Guide)

Stochastic Linear Programming (NEOS Guide)

Stochastic Programming Page

MSLiP, Multistage Stochastic Linear Programming Code

Stochastic Programming Bibliography

Stochastic Integer Programming Bibliography

Stochastic Model Order Form

Multiobjective Programming

Multiobjective Optimization Bibliography

NBI, Normal-Boundary Intersection multicriteria optimization

IOSO, Indirect Optimization Based on Self-Organization (builds local statistical models and optimizes these)

PROTASS

NIMBUS interactive multiobjective optimization system (commercial)

Repository on Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization

An Annotated Bibliography of Multiobjective Combinatorial Optimization

Optimal Scheduling

Optimal Scheduling Links

JOBSHOP, a set of C programs for the job-shop scheduling problems (by Applegate and Cook)

Scheduling Benchmarks

Bibliography on Fuzzy-Scheduling
and Abstracts

Automatic Differentiation

Argonne Automatic Differentiation Page with the ADIFOR Fortran 77 automatic differentiation processor (free use for educational and non-profit research)

ADOL-C Package for the Automatic Differentiation of Algorithms (484K, in C/C++, by Griewank, Juedes, and Utke)
official ADOL-C web pages, TOMS version

Fortran code for automatic differentiation (284K, by Dobmann, Liepelt and Schittkowski)

Estimating sparse hessian matrices, difference of gradients in Fortran77 (by Coleman, Garbow and Moré)

FADBAD and TADIFF C++ packages for performing automatic differentiation of functions implemented as C/C++ programs (including interval enclosures)

ADMIT-1, sparse Jacobian and Hessian matrices in Matlab, by automatic differentiation (by Coleman and Verma)

ADMAT, Automatic Differentiation toolbox for MATLAB 5.0

DAEPACK symbolic program manipulation (differentiation, interval evaluation, sensitivity analysis for zeros of nonlinear systems and for numerical integration)