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Benchmarks

• Benchmarks of Free and Commercial Optimization Software by Hans D. Mittelmann
• Benchmarking solver for interactive use on NEOS
• Benchmarking with performance profiles using the COPS test set
• Interior point and active-set SQP Code Benchmarks by J. Morales, J. Nocedal et.al.
  • Compares the following codes: KNITRO, LOQO, SNOPT, and filterSQP.

Bibliographies

• GLOBALLib Bibliography
• LINLib Bibliography
• MINLPLib Bibliography

Model Collections

• COPS: Large-Scale Optimization Problems (nonlinear):
  • COPS models and benchmarking at Argonne National Laboratory
  • COPS models in GAMS (No.229-245)
• CUTEr: Constrained and Unconstrained Testing Environment, revisited:
  • CUTEr models at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
• GLOBALLib: A Collection of Nonlinear Programming models (in GAMS format)
  • Available from Global World
• MINLPLib: A Collection of Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming models (in GAMS format):
  • Available from MINLP World
• MIPLIB 3.0: Mixed Integer Programming Library:
  • MIPLIB 3.0 at the Department of Computational And Applied Mathematics at Rice University
  • The MIPLIB test set is also available in GAMS format through PerformanceLib
• MPECLib: A Collection of Mathematical Programs With Equilibrium Constraints (in GAMS format)
  • Available from MPEC World
• Model Collection by Hans Mittelmann. Extensive collection of LP, MIP, NLP, and MINLP for benchmarking.
  • Available via FTP at http://plato.asu.edu/ftp/ampl_files/

Papers

• M.R. Bussieck, S.P. Dirkse, A. Meeraus, and A. Pruessner (2005). Software Quality Assurance for Mathematical Modeling Systems ,in The Next Wave in Computing, Optimization and Decision Technologies, Proceedings of the Ninth INFORMS Computing Society Conference, B. Golden, S. Raghavan, and E. Wasil (Eds.).
• M.R. Bussieck, A.S., Drud, A.S., A. Meeraus, and A. Pruessner, (2003) Quality Assurance and Global Optimization, In First International Workshop on Global Constrained Optimization and Constraint Satisfaction COCOS 2002. Bliek, Christian, Jermann, Christophe, and Neumaier, Arnold (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science LNCS 2861, Springer Verlag.

Presentations

• INFORMS November 2002, Session "Benchmkaring & Performance Testing of Optimization Software"
  • Armin Pruessner; Automated Performance Testing and Analysis
  • Hans D. Mittelmann; Benchmarking Large-Scale Optimization Software
  • Arne S. Drud; Testing and Tuning a new Solver Version using Performance Tests

• INFORMS November 2002, Session "Advances in Algebraic Modeling"
  • Arne S. Drud; Novel Problem Types and Algorithms
  • Hans D. Mittelmann; An Online Forum for Performance Testing

• Cocos '02 (Global Constrained Optimization and Constraint Satisfaction), October 2002, France
  • Michael R. Bussieck, Arne S. Drud, Alexander Meeraus; Quality Assurance and Global Optimization; (see the PAVER results for Example 2)

Other

• A Theoretician's Guide to the Experimental Analysis of Algorithms by David S Johnson at AT&T Labs (pdf format)