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Scientific Societies
- MCDM
(International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making)
- MOS
(Mathematical Optimization Society)
- SIAM (Society for Industrial
and Applied Mathematics)
- IFORS (International Federation of
Operational Research Societies)
- INFORMS (Institute
for Operations Research and the Management Sciences)
- AMS (American Mathematical Society)
- INFORS
Suomen Operaatiotutkimusseura ry, Finnish Operations Research Society
- EURO
Association of European Operational Research Societies
Conferences
- INOC 2013,
International Network Optimization Conference, Tenerife, Spain,
May 20-22, 2013
- IPDPS'2013, The 27th IEEE
International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium,
Boston, USA, May 20-24, 2013
-
NIDISC'13
The 16th International Workshop on Nature Inspired Distributed Computing
- EWG DSS
2013, The EURO Working Group on Decision Support Systems
Workshop on "Exploring New Directions for
Decisions in the Internet Age", Thessaloniki,
Greece, May 29-31, 2013
- ICAIS-2013, The 12th International
Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, Zakopane,
Poland, June 9-13, 2013
- International
Artificial Evolution Summer School 2013, Quiberon,
France, June 10-14, 2013
- Erice 2013,
59th Workshop on Nonlinear Optimization: a Bridge from Theory to
Applications, Erice, Italy, June 10-17, 2013
- ISCI'2013, The Fourth
International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, Harbin, China,
June 13-15, 2013
- MCDM 2013, The 22nd
International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making,
Malaga, Spain, June 17-21, 2013
- NUMTA2013,
Numerical Computations: Theory and Algorithms
International Conference and Summer School,
Falerna, Italy, June 17-23, 2013
- CEC 2013, 2013 IEEE
Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Cancun, Mexico, June 20-23,
2013
- CMN
2013, Congress on Numerical Methods in Engineering, Bilbao,
Spain, June 25-28, 2013
- Thematic session on Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization
- EUROPT 2013, 11th EUROPT
Workshop on Advances in Continuous Optimization, Florence, Italy,
June 26-28, 2013
- ICCOSO2013,
The 4th International Conference on Optimization,
Simulation and Control, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, July 1-4, 2013
- EURO-INFORMS MMXIII, 26th
European Conference on Operational Research jointly with INFORM
International Meeting, Rome, Italy, July 1-4, 2013
- EVOLVE 2013, A Bridge
Between Probability, Set Oriented Numerics
and Evolutionary Computation, Leiden, The
Netherlands, July 11-13, 2013
-
DivOpt,
Diversity-oriented Optimization Track
- EUCCO,
3rd European Conference on Computational Optimization, Chemnitz, Germany, July
17-19, 2013
- MIP
2013, Mixed Integer Programming Workshop, Madison, USA, July
22-25, 2013
- ICNC-FSKD 2013, 9th
International Conference on Natural Computation
and 10th International Conference on Fuzzy
Systems and Knowledge Discovery, Shenyang, China,
July 23-25, 2013
- ICCOPT 2013, Fourth International Conference on
Continuous Optimization, Lisbon,
Portugal, July 27 - August 1, 2013
- MIC 2013, 10th
Metaheuristics International Conference, Singapore, August 5-8, 2013
- Special sessions
on Meta-Heuristics and Multiobjective Optimization
- OAS 2013, Optimization and Analysis of Structures,
Tartu, Estonia, August 25-27, 2013
- InteriOR 2013, 2013 International
Conference on Operational Research, Medan, Indonesia,
August 25-28, 2013
- OR 2013, International
Conference on Operations Research, Rotterdam, The Netherlands,
September 3-6, 2013
- WCO'13, 6th Workshop on
Computational Optimization (organized with the
symposium AAIA - FedCSIS 2013), Krakow, Poland, September 8-11, 2013
- IJCCI 2013, 5th International
Joint Conference on Computational
Intelligence, Algarve, Portugal,
September 20-22, 2013
- ECTA,
International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and
Applications
- FCTA,
International Conference on Fuzzy Computation Theory and Applications
- NCTA,
International Conference on Neural Computation Theory and Applications
- ECTA 2013, International
Conference on Evolutionary Computation
Theory and Applications, Algarve, Portugal, September 20-22, 2013
- ICCL'13, 4th
International Conference on Computational Logistics, Copenhagen,
Denmark, September 25-27, 2013
- EUROGEN
2013, International Conference on Evolutionary and
Deterministic Methods for Design, Optimization and
Control with Applications to Industrial and Societal
Problems, Las Palmas, Spain, October 7-9, 2013
- HPCO-2013,
Workshop on High-Performance Computing and Optimization,
Compiegne, France, October 28-30, 2013
- ADT 2013, Third
International Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory,
Brussels, Belgium, November 13-15, 2013
- ICMFII'13,
International Conference on Multidimensional Finance, Insurance and
Investment, Bahrain, November 25-27, 2013
- ICOTA 9, 9th International
Conference on Optimization: Techniques and Applications, Taipei,
Taiwan, December 12-16, 2013
- HICSS-47,
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Hawaii, USA,
January 6-9, 2014
- Minitrack: Multi-Criteria Decision Suppport
- DMAT-miniEURO2014,
EURO Mini-Conference on Optimization in the Natural Sciences,
Aveiro, Portugal, February 5-9, 2014
- GPC06, 6th German Polish
Conference on Optimization Methods and
Applications, Wittenberg, Germany, February 28 - March
4, 2014
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Other Upcoming Academic Conferences via e-Academe.org
Journals
Searching for Journal Articles
- IEEE Xplore, IEEE
(and IEE) publications electronically
- ScienceDirect
- backfile collection of journal articles (published prior to 1995)
- MathSciNet
Mathematical Reviews etc.
- Scirus,
search engine for scientific information only
Areas of Optimization
- MC-SC2
Multiple Criteria Sorting, Classification, and Clustering
- Nonlinear Programming - FAQ
- Linear
Programming - FAQ
- A Short Course in Linear Programming
- Global
(and Local) Optimization
-
Global Optimization Techniques
-
COCONUT project, comparison of solvers for global constrained optimization
and constraint satisfaction techniques (extensive tests of the
solvers BARON, GlobSol, ICOS, LGO, LINGO, OQNLP, Premium Solver,
MINOS and COCOS)
- A Survey of Global
Optimization Methods
- Continuous
global optimization - methods and codes, problems using hybrid
metaheuristics
- Interior-Point
Archive
- IFIP Working Group 7.4 on Discrete Optimization
- Scheduling problems
- Multidisciplinary
Optimization Branch
- Sumea
monitavoiteoptimointi (in Finnish)
- Stochastic Programming
Community Home Page
- Stochastic Programming
bibliographies
- Multiobjective
Optimum Design, Lecture Notes
Services in
Operations Research
- CUTEr,
Constrained and Unconstrained Testing Environment, a set of
tools and test problems for testing optimization software
- Test
problems for nonlinear, stochastic, mixed-integer optimization:
risk management, financial engineering, advanced statistics,
logistics, medical and other engineering applications
- Scirus, Search machine for
scientific information
- Optimization
Online, an e-print site for the optimization community
- e-Optimization Community, the
resource for smarter software
- Opt-Net
- Netlib, a collection of
mathematical software, papers, and databases
- WORMS World-Wide Web
for Operations Research and Management Science
- QAPLIB - A Quadratic
Assignment Problem Library
- Webpage with Optimization
Benchmarks
- MPL
On-Line Tutorial for teaching optimization modeling
- EvoNet, The
Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computing
Further
Links Connected to Operations Research
Software
- WWW-NIMBUS, interactive
multiobjective optimization system for nonlinear and even
nondifferentiable problems (operating on the Internet)
- IND-NIMBUS, interactive
multiobjective optimization system for MS-Windows and Linux
- GALAHAD, a library
of thread-safe Fortran 90 packages for large-scale nonlinear
optimization
- SAL - Optimization,
Scientific Applications on Linux - a collection of optimization sofware
- CPLEX Optimization, Inc.
- AIMMS for mathematical programming
- LIPSOLLinear-programming
Interior Point SOLvers
- SoPlex
LP solver, sequential object-oriented simplex. SoPlex is an object-oriented
implementation of primal and dual simplex algorithms in C++.
- NEOS Wiki
- VBCTOOL a graphical interface for Visualization of Branch Cut
algorithms
- Decision Tree for
Optimization Software
-
MProbe Software for analyzing the "shape" (convex? concave? linear?
almost linear? convex and concave?) of an arbitrary function of many
variables
-
MINOS(IIS) A Software Tool for Analysing Infeasible Linear
Programs
- CVX,
MATLAB-based modeling package for disciplined convex
programming (Version 1.1)
-
SDPpack A package for semidefinite programming
- CSDpack
A Library for Semidefinite Programming
- SolvOpt
(Solver for local optimization problems) is concerned with
minimization or maximization of nonlinear, possibly non-smooth objective
functions and solution of nonlinear minimization problems taking into
account constraints by the method of exact penalization.
- COOOL The
CWP Object-Oriented Optimization Library
- Computational
Global Optimization in Nonlinear Systems: An Interactive Tutorial by
J. D. Pinter
- The
SGOPT Optimization Library An object-oriented interface to a
variety of stochastic optimization methods used for global optimization.
-
OPT++ An Object-Oriented Nonlinear Optimization Library
- Multiple Criteria
Software Feasible Goals Method, Reasonable Goals Method, Nonlinear
Feasible Goals Method
- Java-based
Web-application of the Feasible Goals Method
- ABACUS A
Branch-And-CUt System
- New Optimization
Technology for Complex Technical Systems Efficiency Increasing
- Visual XPRESS An integrated
LP and MIP modelling and optimisation system
- DSDP, software
package for solving positive semidefinite programs
- MOSEK, software package for
solving small-scale and large-scale linear and convex optimization
problems
- TRON, trust
region Newton method for the solution of large bound-constrained
optimization problems
- Concorde, A code
for solving Traveling Salesman Problems
- SYMPHONY, single- or
multi-process optimization over networks
- MOMHLib++,
Multiple Objective MetaHeuristics Library in C++
- NSIPS
Nonlinear Semi-Infinite Programming Solver in C, three methods
- Hiview & Equity
Software for discerete multiple criteria decision analysis
- SNOBFIT,
Stable Noisy Optimization by Branch and FIT,
a MATLAB 6 package for the robust and fast solution
of noisy optimization problems with continuous variables
varying within bound, possibly subject to additional
soft constraints
- Artelys Kalis, numerical component
for constraint programming of combinatorial problems
- ALGLIB, multilingual scientific
software library containing software for solving eigenproblems, linear
equations, other linear algebra problems, optimization and
numerical integration.
- V.I.S.A., web based
multi-criteria decision making software
- Promethee-Gaia
official resource center for the Promethee and Gaia multicriteria
decision aid methods
- Visual Promethee
Software 1.1 Academic Edition
- BENSOLVE,
open Matlab implementation of Benson's method for MOLP
- Subroutines
for nonsdifferentiable and large-scale optimization by L. Luksan
- Smart Picker Pro, Decision Aid Software
- PPLEX, Pivoting Tool
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