Links Connected to Optimization, Operations Research and
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Areas of Optimization,
Services in Operations
Research,
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Links Connected to Operations Research,
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Scientific Societies
- MCDM
(International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making)
- MOS
(Mathematical Optimization Society)
- iSoGo (International
Society of Global Optimization)
- 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
- IFORS 2026,
24th Conference of the International Federation of
Operational Research Societies, Vienna, Austria, July 12-17, 2026
- GECCO
2026,
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, San Antonio,
Costa Rica, July 13-17, 2026
- PPSN 2026, 19th
International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature,
Trento, Italy, August 29 - September 2, 2026
- EMO 2027, 14th
International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion
Optimization, Exeter, UK, April 5-8, 2027
EURO 2027, 35th
European Conference on Operational Research, Athens, Greece, July
11-14, 2027
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
- MIPLIB, Mixed Integer
Programming Library - benchmark problems for testing
- 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
- DESDEO, open source
software framework for interactive multiobjective optimization methods
- 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
- AUGMECON2,
GAMS model of an improved version of the epsilon-constraint method for multiobjective
optimization
- Interactive
MOLP package, Interactive software package to deal with linear
optimization problems with multiple objective functions
- LocalSolver, solves
large-scale mixed-variable non-convex optimization
problems. Applicable for combinatorial or numerical, linear or
nonlinear, convex or non-convex optimization problems.
- ValueDecisions,
for MCDA problems;
a web app to support decisions with conflicting
objectives, multiple stakeholders, and uncertainty
- Utility,
R-package to construct, evaluate and plot value and utility functions
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