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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
- GDN 2012, Group Decision and Negotiation, Recife,
Brazil, May 20-24, 2012
- IPDPS'2012, 26th IEEE International Parallel and
Distributed Processing Symposium, Shanghai, China, May 21-25, 2012
- NIDISC'12, 15th
International Workshop on Nature Inspired Distributed Computing, in
conjunction with IPDPS'2012
- BIOMA 2012, The 5th International Conference on
Bioinspired Optimization Methods and their Applications, Bohinj, Slovenia, May 24-25, 2012
- SSNC 2012, 2012
International Spring School in Natural Computing,
Tarragona, Spain, May 28 - June 1, 2012
- ICNC'12 and FSKD'12,
8th International Conference on Natural Computation and 9th
International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery,
Chongqing, China, May 29-31, 2012
- 12th
Viennese Workshop on Optimal Control, Dynamic Games and Nonlinear
Dynamics, Vienna, Austria, May 30 - June 2, 2012
- ESI 2012,
EURO Summer Institute 2012, Bremen, Germany, June 3-15, 2012
- MOSIM
12, 9th
International Conference on Modeling, Optimization & SIMulation,
Bordeaux, France, June 6-8, 2012
- MMA2012, 17th
International Conference on Mathematical Modelling and Analysis,
Tallinn, Estonia, June 6-9, 2012
- NOS5, Nordic
Optimization Symposium, Trondheim, Norway, June 7-9, 2012
- IEEE
WCCI/CEC 2012, 2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation
Brisbane, Australia, June 10-15, 2012
- CORS/MOPGP'12, 10th
International Conference on Multiple Objective Programming and Goal
Programming together with 5th Annual Conference of the Canadian
Operational Research Society, Niagara Falls, Canada, June 11-13, 2012
- DM12, SIAM Conference on Dicrete Mathematics, Fort Collins, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, June 18-22, 2012
- INFORMS 2012 International, Beijing, China, June 24-27, 2012
- ICOFRE 2012, International Conference on Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Paris, France, June 24-27, 2012
- GOW12, Global Optimization Workshop 2012, Natal, Brazil, June 26-29, 2012
- IIASA 40th
Anniversary Conference, Laxenburg, Vienna, Austria, June 27-29,
2012
- EngOpt 2012, 3rd
International Conference on Engineering Optimization, Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, July 1-5, 2012
- EUROPT 2012, The 10th
EUROPT Workshop on Advances in Continuous Optimization, Siauliai,
Lithuania, July 5-7, 2012
- GECCO
2012, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference,
Philadelphia, USA, July 7-11,2012
- EURO-2012, 25th
European Conference on Operational Research, Vilnius, Lithuania, July
8-11, 2012
- WCCM 2012, 10th World
Congress on Computational Mechanics, Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 8-13, 2012
- Mini-Symposium on
Derivative-Free Methods for Engineering Optimization
- 2012 SIAM Annual
Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, July 9-13, 2012
- IPMU 2012,
International Conference on Information Processing and Management of
Uncertainty, Catania, Italy, July 9-13, 2012
- OPR3, Operation Research
Peripatetic Postgraduate Programme, A EURO Conference for Young OR
Researchers, Linz, Austria, July 16-20, 2012
- AD2012, The 6th International Conference on Automatic Differentiation, Fort Collins, CO USA July 23-27, 2012
- IX Brazilian Workshop on Continuous Optimization, Luis Correia,
Piaui, Brazil, July 29 - August 4, 2012
- MOPTA 2012, 12th
Annual Modeling and OPtimization: Theory and Applications
Conference, Bethlehem, PA, USA, July 30 - August 1, 2012
- PCO 2012, The 6th Global Conference on Power Control & Optimization, Las Vegas, USA, August 6-8, 2011
- EVOLVE 2012, A Bridge
Between Probability, Set Oriented Numerics,
and Evolutionary Computation, Mexico City, Mexico,
August 7-9, 2012
- APPROX 2012 and RANDOM 2012,
15th International Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial
Optimization Problems - APPROX 2012 and
16th International Workshop on Randomization and Computation - RANDOM 2012,
Boston, USA, August 15-17, 2012
- Set
Optimization Meets Finance, International Mini-Conference on
Set-Valued Variational Analysis and Optimization with Applications in
Finance, Lutherstrandt Wittenberg, Germany, August 17-19, 2012
- ISMP 2012, The 21st
International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, Berlin, Germany
August 19-24, 2012
- PPSN
2012, 12th International Conference on Parallel Problem
Solving from Nature, Taormina, Italy, September 1-5, 2012
- DMO2012, 4th Conference
on Data Mining and Optimization, Langkawi, Malaysia, September 2-4, 2012
- Mini-Symposium
CST2012-S16 on Derivative-Free Methods For Engineering
Optimization, as part of the
Eleventh Conference in the Computational Structures Technology
(CST2012), Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 4-7, 2012
- OR 2012, International Annual
Conference of the German OR Society, Hanover, Germany, September 4-7,
2012
- FedCSIS 2012, Federated
Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems,
Wroclaw, Poland, September 9-12, 2012
- WCO'2012, Workshop on
Computational Optimization, Wroclaw, Poland, September 9-12, 2012
- ECCOMAS 2012, The 6th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences
and Engineering, Vienna, Austria, September 10-14, 2012
- CAO'2012,
15th IFAC Workshop on Control
Applications of Optimization, Rimini, Italy, September 13-16, 2012
- Matheuristics'2012,
Fourth International Workshop on Model-Based Metaheuristics, Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, September 16-21, 2012
- OIPE 2012, 12th Workshop on
Optimization and Inverse Problems in Electromagnetism, Ghent, Belgium,
September 19-21, 2012
- Doctoral courses, September 17-18, 2012
- CO 2012,
International Symposium on Combinatorial Optimization, Oxford, United Kingdom,
September 17-19, 2012
- OPTIMA-2012,
III International Conference on Optimization and Applications, Costa
da Caparica, Portugal, September 23-30, 2012
- TPNC 2012, 1st International Conference on the Theory and
Practice of Natural Computing, Tarragona, Spain, October 1-5, 2012
- MI12, SIAM
Conference for Mathematic for Industry, Denver, Colorado, USA, October
2-4, 2012
- ECTA 2012, International
Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications,
Barcelona, Spain, October 5-7, 2012
- INFORMS Annual Meeting 2012, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, October 14-17, 2012
- META'2012, International
Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing, Sousse,
Tunisia, October 27-30, 2012
- SEAL 2012,
9th International Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning 2012,
Hanoi, Vietnam, December 16-19, 2012
- Special Session on Applications of Nature-inspired Computing
Algorithms in Data Mining
- HICSS-46, 46th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Maui, Hawaii, USA, January 7-10, 2013
- EMO 2013, 7th
International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization,
Sheffield, United Kingdom, March 19-22, 2013
- IEEE SSCI 2013, 2013 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational
Intelligence, Singapore, April 15-19, 2013
- MCDM 2013, The 22nd International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making, Malaga, Spain, June 17-21, 2013
- ICCOPT 2013, Fourth International Conference on
Continuous Optimization, Lisbon,
Portugal, July 27 - August 1, 2013
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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 beta
- BENSOLVE,
open Matlab implementation of Benson's method for MOLP
- Subroutines
for nonsdifferentiable and large-scale optimization by L. Luksan
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