Optimization Links Stanford University Department of MS&E Systems Optimization Laboratory

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, a joint project of Argonne National Labs and Northwestern University provides the NEOS Guide to the field of numerical optimization
• MathSciNet -- Math Literature Index on the web
• Mathematical Programming Glossary (Harvey Greenberg)
• Nonlinear Programming FAQ (Robert Fourer/John Gregory)
• Michael Trick's page contains an interesting miscellany of OR resources
• Sources of Numerical Optimization Information (Nick Gould)

What is Optimization?

What is mathematical programming?

Original: 28 Mar 1997
Updated: 15 Jan 2001