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The increasing importance of nonlinear programming software requires an enlarged set of test examples. The purpose of this note is to point out how an interested mathematical programmer could obtain computer programs of more than 120 constrained nonlinear programming problems which have been used in the past to test and compare optimization codes.
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Hock, W., Schittkowski, K. Test examples for nonlinear programming codes. J Optim Theory Appl 30, 127–129 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00934594
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