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This web site is intended to be a supplement to the Handbook of Test Problems in Local and Global Optimization published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. The principal objective of this book is to present a collection of challenging test problems arising in literature studies and a wide spectrum of applications. These applications include : pooling/blending operations problems, heat exchanger network synthesis problems, phase and chemical reaction equilibrium problems, robust stability analysis problems, batch plant design under uncertainty, chemical reactor network synthesis problems, parameter estimation and data reconcilliation problems, conformational problems in clusters of atoms and molecules, pump network synthesis problems, trim loss minimization problems, homogeneous azeotropic separation systems, dynamic optimization problems in reactor network synthesis parameter estimation, and optimal control problems.

This web site contains executable versions of every test problem included in the book. The algebraic test problems are available in the GAMS modeling language and the differential-algebraic problems are supplied in the MINOPT modeling language. All test problems can be downloaded from this web site. The files are organized by chapter, and links to each chapter in the book are included below.

Quadratic Programming Problems Includes: Integer Programming problems, Quadratic Assignment problems, Maximum Clique problem

Quadratically Constrained Problems Includes: Separable Quadratic constraints, Complementarity-type constraints, Integer-type constraints

Univariate Polynomial Problems

Bilinear Problems Includes: Pooling and Blending problems, Separation Sequencing problems, Heat Exchanger Network Design problems, Multicommodity Network Flow problems

Biconvex and Difference of Convex Functions (D.C.) Problems Includes:Phase and Chemical Equilibrium problems

Generalized Geometric Problems Includes:Process Design problems, Stability Analysis problems

Twice Continuously Differentiable NLPs Includes:Process Design problems, Phase and Chemical Equilibrium problems, Computational Chemistry problems, VLSI Chip Design problems, Portfolio Optimization problems

Bilevel Programming Problems Includes: Various Economics, Civil Engineering and Chemical Engineering Problems

Complementarity Problems Includes: Nash Equilibrium, Walrasian Equilibrium, and Traffic Assignment Problems

Semidefinite Programming Problems Includes:Combinatorial Optimization problems, Control Theory problems

Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming Problems (MINLPs) Includes:Process and Network Synthesis problems, Molecular Design problems

Combinatorial Optimization Problems Includes:Satisfiability Problems, Traveling Salesman problem, Assignment problems, Graph Coloring problems, Maximum Clique problem, Steiner problems in Networks

Nonlinear Systems of Equations Includes:Multiple Steady State Identification problems, Locating All Azeotropes problems

Dynamic Optimization Problems Includes:Optimal Control problems, Parameter Estimation for Dynamic Models, Reactor Network Synthesis problems

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