Nonlinear Programming Codes  (English, Paperback, Schittkowski Klaus)

...The increasing importance of mathematical programming for the solution of complex nonlinear systems arising in practical situations requires the development of qualified optimization software. In recent years, a lot of effort has been made to implement efficient and reliable optimization programs and we can observe a wide distribution of these programs both for research and industrial applications. In spite of their practical importance only a few attempts have been made in the past to come to comparative conclusions and to give a designer the possibility to decide which optimization program could solve his individual problems in the most desirable way. Box [BO 1966J, Huang, Levy [HL 1970J, Himmelblau [HI 1971J, Dumi- tru [DU 1974], and More, Garbow, Hillstrom [MG 1978] for example compared algorithms for unres~ricied u~~illii~Gtiv~ y~~~le~~, B~~n [BD 1970], McKeown [MK 1975], and Ramsin, Wedin [RW 1977l studied codes for nonlinear least squares problems. Codes for the linear case are compared by Bartels [BA 1975.J and Schittkowski, Stoer [SS 1979J.Extensive tests for geometric programming algorithms are found in Dembo [DE 1976bJ, Rijckaert [RI 1977], and Rijckaert, Martens [RM 1978J.