Optimization Software

Categories

• linear programming - solvers and analysis aids
• integer programming
• network optimization
• quadratic programming
• unconstrained optimization
• bound-constrained optimization
• constrained optimization (nonlinear programming)
• nonlinear least squares
• nonlinear equations
• global optimization
• miscellaneous optimization problems
• modeling languages and optimization systems
• general numerical software libraries containing optimization routines
• engineering design optimization packages

Much of the information on these products is drawn from a book:

Optimization Software Guide (Jorge J. Moré and Stephen J. Wright, SIAM Publications, 1993).

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The Full List...

We have data on the following software packages:

• The AIMMS modeling language.
• The AMPL modeling language.
• ANALYZE linear programming model analysis.
• ASA - adaptive simulated annealing.
• BPMPD - linear programming.
• BQPD - quadratic programming.
• BT - minimization.
• BTN - block truncated Newton.
• CML - constrained maximum likelihood.
• CNM - linear algebra and minimization.
• CO - constrained optimization.
• COMPACT - design optimization.
• CONOPT - nonlinear programming.
• CONSOL-OPTCAD - engineering system design.
• CONTIN - systems of nonlinear equations.
• CPLEX - linear programming.
• C-WHIZ - linear programming models.
• DATAFORM - model management system.
• DFNLP - nonlinear data fitting.
• DOC - Design Optimization Control Program.
• DONLP2 - nonlinear constrained optimization.
• DOT - Design Optimization Tools.
• EASY FIT - parameter estimation in dynamic systems.
• Excel and Quattro Pro Solvers - spreadsheet-based linear, integer and nonlinear programming
• EZMOD - modeling environment for decision support systems
• FortMP - linear and mixed integer quadratic programming.
• FSQP - nonlinear and minmax constrained optimization, with feasible iterates.
• GAMS - modeling language.
• GAUSS - matrix programming language.
• GENESIS - structural optimization software.
• GENOS 1.0 - nonlinear network optimization.
• GINO - nonlinear programming.
• GRG2 - nonlinear programming.
• GOM: Global Optimization for Mathematica.
• HOMPACK - nonlinear equations and polynomials.
• HOPDM - linear programming (interior-point).
• HARWELL Library - linear and nonlinear programming, nonlinear equations, data fitting.
• HS/LP Linear Optimizer - linear programming.
• ILOG - constraint-based programming and nonlinear optimization.
• IMSL - Fortran and C Library.
• KNITRO -nonlinear programming.
• KORBX - linear programming.
• LAMPS - linear and mixed-integer programming.
• LANCELOT - large-scale problems.
• LBFGS - unconstrained minimization.
• LBFGS-B - bound-constrained minimization.
• LGO IDE - continuous and Lipschitz global optimization.
• LINDO - linear, mixed-integer and quadratic programming.
• LINGO - modeling language.
• LIPSOL - linear programming.
• LNOS - linear programming/network flow problems.
• LOQO - Linear programming, unconstrained and constrained nonlinear optimization.
• LP88 and BLP88 - linear programming.
• LSGRG2 - nonlinear programming.
• LSNNO - large scale optimization.
• LSSOL - least squares problems.
• M1QN3 - unconstrained optimization.
• MATLAB - optimization toolbox.
• MAXLIK - maximum likelihood estimation.
• MCS - global optimization.
• MILP88 - mixed integer programming.
• MINOS - linear programming and nonlinear optimization.
• MINTO - mixed integer linear programming.
• MINPACK-1 - nonlinear equations and least squares.
• MIPIII - mixed integer programming.
• MODFIT - parameter estimation in dynamic systems.
• MODLER - linear programming modeling language.
• MODULOPT - unconstrained problems and simple bounds.
• MOSEK - linear programming and convex optimization.
• MPL - modeling system
• MPSIII - mathematical programming system.
• NAG C Library - nonlinear and quadratic programming, minimization
• NAG Fortran Library - nonlinear and quadratic programming, minimization
• NETFLOW - network optimization.
• NITSOL - systems of nonlinear equations.
• NLPE - minimization and least squares problems.
• NLPJOB - Mulicriteria optimization.
• NLPQL - nonlinear programming.
• NLPQLB - nonlinear programming with constraints.
• NLSSOL - constrained nonlinear least squares problems.
• NLPSPR - nonlinear programming.
• NOVA - nonlinear programming.
• NPSOL - nonlinear programming.
• ODRPACK - NLS and ODR problems.
• OML - linear and mixed-integer programming, model management.
• OPL Studio - optimization language and solver environment.
• OPTDES - design optimization tool.
• OPTECH - global optimization.
• OptiA - unconstrained, constrained, quadratic, minimax, nonsmooth, and global optimization
• OPTIMA Library - optimization and sensitivity analysis.
• OPTIMAX - component software for optimization
• OPTMUM - optimization.
• OPTPACK - constrained and unconstrained optimization.
• OptQuest - global optimization
• OSL - linear, quadratic and mixed-integer programming.
• PCOMP - modelling language with automatic differentiation.
• PCx - linear programming with a primal-dual interior-point method.
• PDEFIT - parameter estimation in partial differential equations.
• PETSc - parallel solution of nonlinear equations and unconstrained minimization problems.
• PLAM - algebraic modeling language for mixed integer programming, constraint logic programming, etc.
• PORT 3 - minimization, least squares, etc.
• PROC LP - linear and integer programming.
• PROC NETFLOW - network optimization.
• PROC NLP - various quadratic and nonlinear optimization problems.
• Q01SUBS - quadratic programming for matrices.
• QAPP - quadratic assignment problems.
• QL - quadratic programming.
• QPOPT - linear and quadratic problems.
• RANDMOD - linear programming model randomizer.
• SIMUSOLV - modeling software.
• SPRNLP - sparse and dense nonlinear programming, sparse nonlinear least squares, including the SOCS package for optimal control
• SPEAKEASY - numerical problems and operations research.
• SNOPT - large-scale quadratic and nonlinear programming problems.
• SQOPT - large-scale linear and convex quadratic programming problems.
• SQP - nonlinear programming.
• SYNAPS Pointer - multidisciplinary design optimization software
• SYSFIT - parameter estimation in systems of nonlinear equations.
• TENMIN - unconstrained optimization.
• TENSOLVE - nonlinear equations and least squares.
• TN/TNBC - minimization.
• TNPACK - nonlinear unconstrained minimization.
• TSA88 - network linear programming.
• UNCMIN - unconstrained optimization.
• VE08 - nonlinear optimization.
• VE10 - nonlinear least squares.
• VIG and VIMDA - decision support system.
• What'sBest - linear and mixed integer programming.
• WHIZARD - linear programming, mixed-integer programming.
• XLSOL - Linear, integer and nonlinear programming for AMPL models
• XPRESS-MP from Dash Associates - linear and integer programming.

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