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The Optimization Tree. Our thumbnail sketch of optimization (also known as numerical optimization or mathematical programming) and its various subdisciplines.
The Optimization Software Guide. Information on software packages from the book by Moré and Wright, updated for the NEOS Guide.
Frequently Asked Questions on Linear and Nonlinear Programming. These are the FAQs initiated by John Gregory, now maintained by Bob Fourer as part of the NEOS Guide.
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Case Studies. Optimization in the real world - how practical problems are formulated as optimization problems. Features the Diet Problem and the Simplex Tool.
GIDEN, a Java-based graphical environment for network optimization.
Technical Reports on OTC topics. See the recent piece on NEOS:Optimization on the Internet in ORMS/Today.
Test Problems. Includes the netlib extended LP test set.
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Applications of Optimization. Collection of applications which currently contains a logistics application.
Other Optimization-related Web Sites.

The NEOS Server:: Solving optimization problems remotely over the Internet.
The Interior-Point Methods Online:: New technical reports about Interior-Point Methods.
The metaNEOS project:: Solving optimization problems on metacomputing platforms, such as networks of workstations

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