Systems Optimization Laboratory

Optimization Links

Societies

• SIAM Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
• Mathematical Programming Society
• INFORMS Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
• American Mathematical Society (AMS)

Software Tools

• AMPL mathematical programming language
• GAMS mathematical programming language
• NEOS Guide to Optimization Software, including SOL software.

General Reference

• Optimization Technology Center, joint project of Argonne National Labs and Northwestern University provides NEOS Guide to numerical optimization
• MathSciNet Math Literature Index
• Mathematical Programming Glossary (Harvey Greenberg)
• Nonlinear Programming FAQ (Robert Fourer/John Gregory)
• Michael Trick's page contains an interesting miscellany of OR resources
• Wikimization: repository of all things Optimization

Fun

• World Science (News)
• Optimization jokes

What is Optimization?

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