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Scientific Societies
- MCDM
(International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making)
- MPS
(Mathematical Programming 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
- DSTIS'2009,
8th International Conference on Decision Support for
Telecommunications and Information Society, Coimbra,
Portugal, September 4-7, 2009
- EuroTun2009, 2nd
International Conference on Numerical Methods in Tunnelling,
Bochum, Germany, September 9-11, 2009
- ICIC'09, 2009 International Conference on Intelligent
Computing, Ulsan, Korea, September 16-19, 2009
- OPTIMA2009,
International Conference on Optimization and Applications, Petrovac, Montenegro
September 21-25, 2009
- ICCMSE 2009, 7th International Conference of Computational Methods in Sciences
and Engineering 2009, Rhodes,
Crete, Greece, September 28 - October 3, 2009
- ICCAM 2009, 14th International Congress on Computational and
Applied Mathematics, Antalya, Turkey, September 29 - October 2, 2009
- KORSD-2009, 5th
International Vilnius Conference and EURO-Mini Conference
"Knowledge-Based Technologies and OR methodologies for Strategic
Decisions of Sustainable Development", Vilnius, Lithuania, September
30 - October 3, 2009
- ICEC 2009, International Conference on
Evolutionary Computation,
Madeira, Portugal, October 5-7, 2009
- INFORMS Annual
Meeting San Diego 2009, San Diego, USA, October 11-14, 2009
- WCO'09, 2nd Workshop on Computational Optimization
Mragovo, Poland, October 12-14, 2009
(in the framework of IMCSIT 2009 - International Multiconference on
Computer Science and Information Technology)
- SMC'2009, XIII
International Conference on System Modelling and Control,
Zakopane, Poland, October 12-14, 2009
- PCO 2010, Global Conference
on Power Control and Optimization, Gold Coast, Australia, February
2-4, 2010
- ECCM 2010,
Fourth European Conference on Computational Mechanics
(Solids, Structures and Coupled Problems in Engineering), Paris,
France, May 16-21, 2010
- MOPGP'10, 9th
International Conference on Multi-Objective Programming and Goal
Programming, Sousse, Tunisia, May 24-26, 2010
- ALIO-INFORMS Joint
International Meeting, Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 6-9, 2010
- EURO XXIV Lisbon,
24th European Conference on Operational Research, Lisbon, Portugal,
July 11-14, 2010
- WCCI2010, 2010 IEEE World
Congress on Computational Intelligence, Barcelona, Spain, July 18-23, 2010
- ICAOR2010,
International Conference on Applied Operational Research, Turku,
Finland, August 25-27, 2010
- MCDM2011, 21st
International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making,
Jyväskylä, Finland, June 13-17, 2011
- 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.
- MathematicsWeb,
the new information resource for Pure Mathematics, Applied
Mathematics, Statistics and Probability.
- 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
- 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
- MENTOR Multimedia
Teaching of OR/MS (including linear, dynamic and integer programming)
- CAMO Center for Advanced
Modeling and Optimization
- 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)
- GALAHAD, a library
of thread-safe Fortran 90 packages for large-scale nonlinear
optimization
- DAKOTA
Version 3.0, A Software Toolkit for Design Optimization, Uncertainty
Quantification, Parameter Estimation, and Sensitivity Analysis on
High Performance Computers
- SAL - Optimization,
Scientific Applications on Linux - a collection of optimization sofware
- Software for
Optimization: A Buyer's Guide
- TOMLAB, Optimization
Environment in Matlab
- CPLEX Optimization, Inc.
- 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++.
- Optimization technology Center
- AMPL A Modeling Language
for Mathematical Programming
- 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
-
IMPS SoftwareANALYZE, MODLER, and RANDMOD
- CSDpack
A Library for Semidefinite Programming
- MCF Network
simplex algorithm
- 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. Pintér
- 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
- NBI
Normal-Boundary Intersection method for generating a representation of
the Pareto optimal set
- MINOPT A
Modeling Language and Algorithmic Framework for Linear,
Mixed-Integer, Nonlinear, Dynamic, and Mixed-Integer
Nonlinear Optimization
- DONLP2_AD,
A new AD version of Peter Spellucci's NLP package DONLP2
- Simplex
Pivot Tool, A java applet facilitating simplex pivots
- Network
Simplex Method, A java applet facilitating network simplex method pivots
- Applets
testing different variants of the simplex method
- DSDP, software
package for solving positive semidefinite programs
- MOSEK, software package for
solving small-scale and large-scale linear and convex optimization
problems
- PREQN,
Software for automatically preconditioning the conjugate gradient
method
- TRON, trust
region Newton method for the solution of large bound-constrained
optimization problems
- MCS,
Matlab program for bound constrained global optimization
- Concorde, A code
for solving Traveling Salesman Problems
- SYMPHONY, single- or
multi-process optimization over networks
- MOMHLib++,
Multiple Objective MetaHeuristics Library in C++
- SeDuMi,
version 1.05, Matlab toolbox for solving optimization problems over
symmetric cones
- 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
- SCIP, Solving Constraint Integer
Programs.
SCIP is an open-source framework for Constraint Integer Programming
for experts who
want to have total control of the solution process. It integrates techniques
from Mixed Integer Programming, Constraint Programming and SAT
Solving.
- 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.
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