Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming (MINLP) Solver Applied to a Nonlinear Integer Programming Problem Based on the Rosenbrock Function with 10100 General Integer Variables of Lower Bounds of -9s and Upper Bounds of 9s

Jsun Yui Wong

Similar to the computer programs of the preceding papers, the computer program below seeks to solve a problem based on Li and Sun's Problem 14.4, [12, p. 415], but with 10100 unknowns instead of their 100 unknowns and with lower bounds of -9s instead of their -5s and upper bounds of 9s instead of their 5s, [12, p. 415].  The function is based on the Rosenbrock function--see Schittkowski [16] and Li and Sun [12, p. 415].  Specifically, the test example here is as follows:

Minimize

10100-1
SIGMA    [  100*  ( X(i+1) - X(i)^2  )^2  +  (  1-X(i)   )^2   ]
i=1

subject to

-9<=X(i)<=9, X(i) integer, i=1, 2, 3,..., 10100.

One notes line 111 through line 117 and line 170 through line 173.

The following computer program uses Microsoft's GW-BASIC 3.11 interpreter for DOS.

0 DEFINT J,K,B,X
2 DIM A(10100),X(10100)
81 FOR JJJJ=-32000 TO 32000
89 RANDOMIZE JJJJ
90 M=-1.5D+38
111 FOR J44=1 TO 10100
114 A(J44)=-9+FIX(RND*19)
117 NEXT J44
128 FOR I=1 TO 32000 STEP .5
129 FOR KKQQ=1 TO 10100
130 X(KKQQ)=A(KKQQ)
131 NEXT KKQQ
139 FOR IPP=1 TO FIX(1+RND*.3)
140 B=1+FIX(RND*10100)
167 IF RND<.5 THEN X(B)=A(B)-1   ELSE X(B)=A(B) +1
169 NEXT IPP
170 FOR J44=1 TO 10100
171 IF X(J44)<-9 THEN X(J44 )=A(J44  )
172 IF X(J44)>9 THEN X(J44 )=A(J44  )
173 NEXT J44
200 SUMNEWZ=0
203 FOR J44=1 TO    10099
205 SUMNEWZ=SUMNEWZ+  100*  ( X(J44+1)-X(J44)^2  )^2  +  ( 1-X(J44 ) )  ^2
207 NEXT J44
511 SONE=   - SUMNEWZ
689 PD1=SONE
1111 IF PD1<=M THEN 1670
1452 M=PD1
1454 FOR KLX=1 TO 10100
1455 A(KLX)=X(KLX)
1456 NEXT KLX
1559 GOTO 128
1670 NEXT I
1771 PRINT A(1),A(2),A(3),A(4),A(5)
1899 PRINT A(9996),A(9997),A(9998),A(10099),A(10100),M,JJJJ
1999 NEXT JJJJ

This BASIC computer program was run via basica/D of Microsoft's GW-BASIC 3.11 interpreter for DOS.  See the BASIC manual [13].  Copied by hand from the screen, the computer program's complete output through JJJJ=-31991 is shown below:

-1   1   1   1   1
1   1   1   1   1
-4         -32000

1   1   1   1   1
1   1   1   2   4
-101         -31999

-1   1   1   1   1
1   1   1   1   1
-4         -31998

-1   1   1   1   1
1   1   1   3   9
-209         -31997

1   1   1   1   1
1   1   1   2   4
-101         -31996

1   1   1   1   1
1   1   1   2   4
-101         -31995

-1   1   1   1   1
1   1   1   1   1
-4         -31994

1   1   1   1   1
1   1   1   2   4
-306         -31993

-1   1   1   1   1
1   1   1   1   1
-4         -31992

1   1   1   1   1
1   1   1   1   1
0         -31991

Above there is no rounding by hand; it is just straight copying by hand from the screen.

M=0 is optimal.  See Li and Sun [12, p. 415].

Of the 10100 A's, only the 10 A's of line 1771 and line 1899 are shown above.

On a personal computer with a Pentium Dual-Core CPU E5200 @2.50GHz, 2.50 GHz, 960 MB of RAM, and the IBM basica/D interpreter, version GW BASIC 3.11,  the wall-clock time for obtaining the output through JJJJ=-31991 was 115 hours.

Acknowledgment

I would like to acknowledge the encouragement of Roberta Clark and Tom Clark.

References

[1] E. Balas, An Additive Algorithm for Solving Linear Programs with Zero-One Variables.    Operations Research, Vol. 13, No. 4 (1965), pp. 517-548.

[2] E. Balas, Discrete Programming by the Filter Method.  Operations Research, Vol. 15, No. 5 (Sep. - Oct., 1967), pp. 915-957.

[3] F. Cajori (1911) Historical Note on the Newton-Raphson Method of Approximation.  The American Mathematical Monthly, Volume 18 #2, pp. 29-32.

[4] George B. Dantzig, Discrete-Variable Extrenum Problems.  Operations Research, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Apr., 1957), pp. 266-277.

[5] M. A. Duran, I. E. Grossmann, An Outer-Approximation Algorithm for a Class of Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programs.  Mathematical Programming, 36:307-339, 1986.

[6] D. M. Himmelblau, Applied Nonlinear Programming.  New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1972.

[7] W. Hock, K. Schittkowski, Test Examples for Nonlinear Programming Codes.  Springer-Verlag, 1981.

[8] M. Junger, T. M. Liebling, D. Naddef, G. L. Nemhauser, W. R. Pulleyblank, G. Reinelt, G.   Rinaldi, L. A. Woolsey--Editors, 50 Years of Integer Programming 1958-2008: From the Early Years to the State-of-the-Art.  Springer, 2010 Edition.  eBook; ISBN 978-3-540-68279-0

[9] Jack Lashover (November 12, 2012).  Monte Carlo Marching.  www.academia.edu/5481312/MONTE_ CARLO_MARCHING

[10] E. L. Lawler, M. D. Bell, A Method for Solving Discrete Optimization Problems.  Operations Research, Vol. 14, No. 6 (Nov. - Dec., 1966), pp. 1098-1112.

[11] E. L. Lawler, M. D. Bell, Errata: A Method for Solving Discrete Optimization Problems.  Operations Research, Vol. 15, No. 3 (May - June, 1967), p. 578.

[12] Duan Li, Xiaoling Sun, Nonlinear Integer Programming.  Springer Science+Business Media,LLC (2006).  http://www.books.google.ca/books?isbn=0387329951

[13] Microsoft Corp., BASIC, Second Edition (May 1982), Version 1.10. Boca Raton, Florida: IBM Corp., Personal Computer, P. O. Box 1328-C,Boca Raton, Floridda 33432, 1981.

[14] Harvey M. Salkin, Integer Programming.  Menlo Park, California: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company (1975).

[15] Harvey M. Salkin, Kamlesh Mathur, Foundations of Integer Programming.  Elsevier Science Ltd (1989).

[16] K. Schittkowski, More Test Examples for Nonlinear Programming Codes.  Springer-Verlag, 1987.

[17] S. Surjanovic, Zakharov Function.  www.sfu.ca/~ssurjano/zakharov.html

[18] Jsun Yui Wong (2012, April 23).  The Domino Method of General Integer Nonlinear Programming Applied to Problem 2 of Lawler and Bell.   http://computationalresultsfromcomputerprograms.wordpress.com/2012/04/23/

[19] Jsun Yui Wong (2013, September 4).  A Nonlinear Integer/Discrete/Continuous Programming Solver Applied to a Literature Problem with Twenty Binary Variables and Three Constraints, Third Edition.  http://myblogsubstance.typepad.com/substance/2013/09/

[20] Jsun Yui Wong (2014, June 27).  A Unified Computer Program for Schittkowski's Test Problem 377, Second Edition.  http://nonlinearintegerprogrammingsolver.blogspot.ca/2014_06_01_archive.html

Saturday, December 27, 2014

Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming (MINLP) Solver Applied to a Nonlinear Integer Programming Problem Based on the Rosenbrock Function with 10100 General Integer Variables of Lower Bounds of -12s and Upper Bounds of 12s

Jsun Yui Wong

Similar to the computer programs of the preceding papers, the computer program below seeks to solve a problem based on Li and Sun's Problem 14.4, [12, p. 415], but with 10100 unknowns instead of 100 unknowns and with lower bounds of -12s instead of -5s and upper bounds of 12s instead of 5s.  The function is based on the Rosenbrock function--see Schittkowski [16] and Li and Sun [12, p. 415].  Specifically, the test example here is as follows:

Minimize

10100-1
SIGMA    [  100*  ( X(i+1) - X(i)^2  )^2  +  (  1-X(i)   )^2   ]
i=1

subject to

-12<=X(i)<=12, X(i) integer, i=1, 2, 3,..., 10100.

One notes line 111 through line 117 and line 170 through line 173.

The following computer program uses Microsoft's GW-BASIC 3.11 interpreter for DOS.

0 DEFINT J,K,B,X
2 DIM A(10100),X(10100)
81 FOR JJJJ=-32000 TO 32000
89 RANDOMIZE JJJJ
90 M=-1.5D+38
111 FOR J44=1 TO 10100
114 A(J44)=-12+FIX(RND*25)
117 NEXT J44
128 FOR I=1 TO 32000 STEP .5
129 FOR KKQQ=1 TO 10100
130 X(KKQQ)=A(KKQQ)
131 NEXT KKQQ
139 FOR IPP=1 TO FIX(1+RND*.3)
140 B=1+FIX(RND*10100)
167 IF RND<.5 THEN X(B)=A(B)-1   ELSE X(B)=A(B) +1
169 NEXT IPP
170 FOR J44=1 TO 10100
171 IF X(J44)<-12 THEN X(J44 )=A(J44  )
172 IF X(J44)>12 THEN X(J44 )=A(J44  )
173 NEXT J44
200 SUMNEWZ=0
203 FOR J44=1 TO    10099
205 SUMNEWZ=SUMNEWZ+  100*  ( X(J44+1)-X(J44)^2  )^2  +  ( 1-X(J44 ) )  ^2
207 NEXT J44
511 SONE=   - SUMNEWZ
689 PD1=SONE
1111 IF PD1<=M THEN 1670
1452 M=PD1
1454 FOR KLX=1 TO 10100
1455 A(KLX)=X(KLX)
1456 NEXT KLX
1559 GOTO 128
1670 NEXT I
1771 PRINT A(1),A(2),A(3),A(4),A(5)
1899 PRINT A(9996),A(9997),A(9998),A(10099),A(10100),M,JJJJ
1999 NEXT JJJJ

This BASIC computer program was run via basica/D of Microsoft's GW-BASIC 3.11 interpreter for DOS.  See the BASIC manual [13].  Copied by hand from the screen, the computer program's complete output through JJJJ=-32000 is shown below:

1   1   1   1   1
1   1   1   1   1
0   -32000

Above there is no rounding by hand; it is just straight copying by hand from the screen.

M=0 is optimal.  See Li and Sun [12, p. 415].

Of the 10100 A's, only the 10 A's of line 1771 and line 1899 are shown above.

On a personal computer with a Pentium Dual-Core CPU E5200 @2.50GHz, 2.50 GHz, 960 MB of RAM, and the IBM basica/D interpreter, version GW BASIC 3.11,  the wall-clock time for obtaining the output through JJJJ=-32000 was 13 hours.

Acknowledgment

I would like to acknowledge the encouragement of Roberta Clark and Tom Clark.

References

[1] E. Balas, An Additive Algorithm for Solving Linear Programs with Zero-One Variables.    Operations Research, Vol. 13, No. 4 (1965), pp. 517-548.

[2] E. Balas, Discrete Programming by the Filter Method.  Operations Research, Vol. 15, No. 5 (Sep. - Oct., 1967), pp. 915-957.

[3] F. Cajori (1911) Historical Note on the Newton-Raphson Method of Approximation.  The American Mathematical Monthly, Volume 18 #2, pp. 29-32.

[4] George B. Dantzig, Discrete-Variable Extrenum Problems.  Operations Research, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Apr., 1957), pp. 266-277.

[5] M. A. Duran, I. E. Grossmann, An Outer-Approximation Algorithm for a Class of Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programs.  Mathematical Programming, 36:307-339, 1986.

[6] D. M. Himmelblau, Applied Nonlinear Programming.  New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1972.

[7] W. Hock, K. Schittkowski, Test Examples for Nonlinear Programming Codes.  Springer-Verlag, 1981.

[8] M. Junger, T. M. Liebling, D. Naddef, G. L. Nemhauser, W. R. Pulleyblank, G. Reinelt, G.   Rinaldi, L. A. Woolsey--Editors, 50 Years of Integer Programming 1958-2008: From the Early Years to the State-of-the-Art.  Springer, 2010 Edition.  eBook; ISBN 978-3-540-68279-0

[9] Jack Lashover (November 12, 2012).  Monte Carlo Marching.  www.academia.edu/5481312/MONTE_ CARLO_MARCHING

[10] E. L. Lawler, M. D. Bell, A Method for Solving Discrete Optimization Problems.  Operations Research, Vol. 14, No. 6 (Nov. - Dec., 1966), pp. 1098-1112.

[11] E. L. Lawler, M. D. Bell, Errata: A Method for Solving Discrete Optimization Problems.  Operations Research, Vol. 15, No. 3 (May - June, 1967), p. 578.

[12] Duan Li, Xiaoling Sun, Nonlinear Integer Programming.  Springer Science+Business Media,LLC (2006).  http://www.books.google.ca/books?isbn=0387329951

[13] Microsoft Corp., BASIC, Second Edition (May 1982), Version 1.10. Boca Raton, Florida: IBM Corp., Personal Computer, P. O. Box 1328-C,Boca Raton, Floridda 33432, 1981.

[14] Harvey M. Salkin, Integer Programming.  Menlo Park, California: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company (1975).

[15] Harvey M. Salkin, Kamlesh Mathur, Foundations of Integer Programming.  Elsevier Science Ltd (1989).

[16] K. Schittkowski, More Test Examples for Nonlinear Programming Codes.  Springer-Verlag, 1987.

[17] S. Surjanovic, Zakharov Function.  www.sfu.ca/~ssurjano/zakharov.html

[18] Jsun Yui Wong (2012, April 23).  The Domino Method of General Integer Nonlinear Programming Applied to Problem 2 of Lawler and Bell.   http://computationalresultsfromcomputerprograms.wordpress.com/2012/04/23/

[19] Jsun Yui Wong (2013, September 4).  A Nonlinear Integer/Discrete/Continuous Programming Solver Applied to a Literature Problem with Twenty Binary Variables and Three Constraints, Third Edition.  http://myblogsubstance.typepad.com/substance/2013/09/

[20] Jsun Yui Wong (2014, June 27).  A Unified Computer Program for Schittkowski's Test Problem 377, Second Edition.  http://nonlinearintegerprogrammingsolver.blogspot.ca/2014_06_01_archive.html

Friday, December 26, 2014

Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming (MINLP) Solver Using Hot Starts To Solve a Nonlinear Integer Programming Problem Based on the Rosenbrock Functioin with 10100 General Integer Variables of Lower Bounds of -30s and Upper Bounds of 30s

Jsun Yui Wong

Similar to the computer programs of the preceding papers, the computer program below seeks to solve a problem based on Li and Sun's Problem 14.4, [12, p. 415], but with 10100 unknowns instead of 100 unknowns and with lower bounds of -30s instead of -5s and upper bounds of 30s instead of 5s.  The function is based on the Rosenbrock function--see Schittkowski [16] and Li and Sun [12, p. 415].  Specifically, the test example here is as follows:

Minimize

10100-1
SIGMA    [  100*  ( X(i+1) - X(i)^2  )^2  +  (  1-X(i)   )^2   ]
i=1

subject to

-30<=X(i)<=30, X(i) integer, i=1, 2, 3,..., 10100.

One notes line 111 through line 117 and line 170 through line 173; line 115 gives relatively hot starts. Although many real, engineering or not, problems do not exhibit obvious hot starts, one can experiment.

The following computer program uses the IBM Personal Computer BASIC Compiler--through A:\>bascom and A:\>link--Copyright IBM Corp 1982 Version 1.00/Copyright Microsoft, Inc. 1982.

0 DEFINT J,K,B,X
2 DIM A(10100),X(10100)
81 FOR JJJJ=-32000 TO 32000
89 RANDOMIZE JJJJ
90 M=-1.5D+38
111 FOR J44=1 TO 10100
114 REM   A(J44)=-10+FIX(RND*21)
115 IF RND<.5 THEN A(J44)=0 ELSE A(J44)=1
117 NEXT J44
128 FOR I=1 TO 32000 STEP .5
129 FOR KKQQ=1 TO 10100
130 X(KKQQ)=A(KKQQ)
131 NEXT KKQQ
139 FOR IPP=1 TO FIX(1+RND*.3)
140 B=1+FIX(RND*10100)
167 IF RND<.5 THEN X(B)=A(B)-1   ELSE X(B)=A(B) +1
169 NEXT IPP
170 FOR J44=1 TO 10100
171 IF X(J44)<-30 THEN X(J44 )=A(J44  )
172 IF X(J44)>30 THEN X(J44 )=A(J44  )
173 NEXT J44
200 SUMNEWZ=0
203 FOR J44=1 TO    10099
205 SUMNEWZ=SUMNEWZ+  100*  ( X(J44+1)-X(J44)^2  )^2  +  ( 1-X(J44 ) )  ^2
207 NEXT J44
511 SONE=   - SUMNEWZ
689 PD1=SONE
1111 IF PD1<=M THEN 1670
1452 M=PD1
1454 FOR KLX=1 TO 10100
1455 A(KLX)=X(KLX)
1456 NEXT KLX
1559 GOTO 128
1670 NEXT I
1899 PRINT A(1),A(2),A(7998),A(7999),A(8000),M,JJJJ
1999 NEXT JJJJ

This BASIC computer program was run with the IBM Personal Computer BASIC Compiler, Version 1.00.  See the BASIC manual [11, page iii, Preface].  Copied by hand from the screen, the computer program's complete output through JJJJ=-31996 is shown below:

1   1   1   1   1
0         -32000

-1   1   1   1   1
-4         -31999

1   1   1   1   1
0         -31998

1   1   1   1   1
0         -31997

-1   1   1   1   1
-4         -31996

Above there is no rounding by hand; it is just straight copying by hand from the screen.

M=0 is optimal.  See Li and Sun [12, p. 415].

Of the 10100 A's, only the 5 A's of line 1899  are shown above.

On a personal computer with a Pentium Dual-Core CPU E5200 @2.50GHz, 2.50 GHz, 960 MB of RAM, and  the IBM Personal Computer BASIC Compiler, Copyright IBM Corp 1982 Version 1.00/Copyright Microsoft, Inc. 1982, the wall-clock time for obtaining the output through JJJJ=-31996 was nine hours.

Acknowledgment

I would like to acknowledge the encouragement of Roberta Clark and Tom Clark.

References

[1] E. Balas, An Additive Algorithm for Solving Linear Programs with Zero-One Variables.    Operations Research, Vol. 13, No. 4 (1965), pp. 517-548.

[2] E. Balas, Discrete Programming by the Filter Method.  Operations Research, Vol. 15, No. 5 (Sep. - Oct., 1967), pp. 915-957.

[3] F. Cajori (1911) Historical Note on the Newton-Raphson Method of Approximation.  The American Mathematical Monthly, Volume 18 #2, pp. 29-32.

[4] George B. Dantzig, Discrete-Variable Extrenum Problems.  Operations Research, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Apr., 1957), pp. 266-277.

[5] M. A. Duran, I. E. Grossmann, An Outer-Approximation Algorithm for a Class of Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programs.  Mathematical Programming, 36:307-339, 1986.

[6] D. M. Himmelblau, Applied Nonlinear Programming.  New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1972.

[7] W. Hock, K. Schittkowski, Test Examples for Nonlinear Programming Codes.  Springer-Verlag, 1981.

[8] M. Junger, T. M. Liebling, D. Naddef, G. L. Nemhauser, W. R. Pulleyblank, G. Reinelt, G.   Rinaldi, L. A. Woolsey--Editors, 50 Years of Integer Programming 1958-2008: From the Early Years to the State-of-the-Art.  Springer, 2010 Edition.  eBook; ISBN 978-3-540-68279-0

[9] Jack Lashover (November 12, 2012).  Monte Carlo Marching.  www.academia.edu/5481312/MONTE_ CARLO_MARCHING

[10] E. L. Lawler, M. D. Bell, A Method for Solving Discrete Optimization Problems.  Operations Research, Vol. 14, No. 6 (Nov. - Dec., 1966), pp. 1098-1112.

[11] E. L. Lawler, M. D. Bell, Errata: A Method for Solving Discrete Optimization Problems.  Operations Research, Vol. 15, No. 3 (May - June, 1967), p. 578.

[12] Duan Li, Xiaoling Sun, Nonlinear Integer Programming.  Springer Science+Business Media,LLC (2006).  http://www.books.google.ca/books?isbn=0387329951

[13] Microsoft Corp., BASIC, Second Edition (May 1982), Version 1.10. Boca Raton, Florida: IBM Corp., Personal Computer, P. O. Box 1328-C,Boca Raton, Floridda 33432, 1981.

[14] Harvey M. Salkin, Integer Programming.  Menlo Park, California: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company (1975).

[15] Harvey M. Salkin, Kamlesh Mathur, Foundations of Integer Programming.  Elsevier Science Ltd (1989).

[16] K. Schittkowski, More Test Examples for Nonlinear Programming Codes.  Springer-Verlag, 1987.

[17] S. Surjanovic, Zakharov Function.  www.sfu.ca/~ssurjano/zakharov.html

[18] Jsun Yui Wong (2012, April 23).  The Domino Method of General Integer Nonlinear Programming Applied to Problem 2 of Lawler and Bell.   http://computationalresultsfromcomputerprograms.wordpress.com/2012/04/23/

[19] Jsun Yui Wong (2013, September 4).  A Nonlinear Integer/Discrete/Continuous Programming Solver Applied to a Literature Problem with Twenty Binary Variables and Three Constraints, Third Edition.  http://myblogsubstance.typepad.com/substance/2013/09/

[20] Jsun Yui Wong (2014, June 27).  A Unified Computer Program for Schittkowski's Test Problem 377, Second Edition.  http://nonlinearintegerprogrammingsolver.blogspot.ca/2014_06_01_archive.html

Thursday, December 25, 2014

Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming (MINLP) Solver Applied to a Nonlinear Integer Programming Problem with 10100 General Integer Variables of Lower Bounds of -11s and Upper Bounds of 11s

Jsun Yui Wong

Similar to the computer programs of the preceding papers, the computer program below seeks to solve a problem based on Li and Sun's Problem 14.4, [12, p. 415], but with 10100 unknowns instead of 100 unknowns and with lower bounds of -11s instead of -5s and upper bounds of 11s instead of 5s.  The function is based on the Rosenbrock function--see Schittkowski [16] and Li and Sun [12, p. 415].  Specifically, the test example here is as follows:

Minimize

10100-1
SIGMA    [  100*  ( X(i+1) - X(i)^2  )^2  +  (  1-X(i)   )^2   ]
i=1

subject to

-11<=X(i)<=11, X(i) integer, i=1, 2, 3,..., 10100.

One notes line 111 through line 117 and line 170 through line 173.

The following computer program uses Microsoft's GW-BASIC 3.11 interpreter for DOS.

0 DEFINT J,K,B,X
2 DIM A(10100),X(10100)
81 FOR JJJJ=-32000 TO 32000
89 RANDOMIZE JJJJ
90 M=-1.5D+38
111 FOR J44=1 TO 10100
114 A(J44)=-11+FIX(RND*23)
117 NEXT J44
128 FOR I=1 TO 32000 STEP .5
129 FOR KKQQ=1 TO 10100
130 X(KKQQ)=A(KKQQ)
131 NEXT KKQQ
139 FOR IPP=1 TO FIX(1+RND*.3)
140 B=1+FIX(RND*10100)
167 IF RND<.5 THEN X(B)=A(B)-1   ELSE X(B)=A(B) +1
169 NEXT IPP
170 FOR J44=1 TO 10100
171 IF X(J44)<-11 THEN X(J44 )=A(J44  )
172 IF X(J44)>11 THEN X(J44 )=A(J44  )
173 NEXT J44
200 SUMNEWZ=0
203 FOR J44=1 TO    10099
205 SUMNEWZ=SUMNEWZ+  100*  ( X(J44+1)-X(J44)^2  )^2  +  ( 1-X(J44 ) )  ^2
207 NEXT J44
511 SONE=   - SUMNEWZ
689 PD1=SONE
1111 IF PD1<=M THEN 1670
1452 M=PD1
1454 FOR KLX=1 TO 10100
1455 A(KLX)=X(KLX)
1456 NEXT KLX
1559 GOTO 128
1670 NEXT I
1771 PRINT A(1),A(2),A(3),A(4),A(5)
1899 PRINT A(9996),A(9997),A(9998),A(10099),A(10100),M,JJJJ
1999 NEXT JJJJ

This BASIC computer program was run via basica/D of Microsoft's GW-BASIC 3.11 interpreter for DOS.  See the BASIC manual [11].  Copied by hand from the screen, the computer program's complete output through JJJJ=-32000 is shown below:

1   1   1   1   1  
1   1   1   1   1
0         -32000

Above there is no rounding by hand; it is just straight copying by hand from the screen.

M=0 is optimal.  See Li and Sun [12, p. 415].

Of the 10100 A's, only the 10 A's of line 1771 and line 1899  are shown above.

On a personal computer with a Pentium Dual-Core CPU E5200 @2.50GHz, 2.50 GHz, 960 MB of RAM, and the IBM basica/D interpreter, version GW BASIC 3.11,  the wall-clock time for obtaining the output through JJJJ=-32000 was 13 hours.

Acknowledgment

I would like to acknowledge the encouragement of Roberta Clark and Tom Clark.

References

[1] E. Balas, An Additive Algorithm for Solving Linear Programs with Zero-One Variables.    Operations Research, Vol. 13, No. 4 (1965), pp. 517-548.

[2] E. Balas, Discrete Programming by the Filter Method.  Operations Research, Vol. 15, No. 5 (Sep. - Oct., 1967), pp. 915-957.

[3] F. Cajori (1911) Historical Note on the Newton-Raphson Method of Approximation.  The American Mathematical Monthly, Volume 18 #2, pp. 29-32.

[4] George B. Dantzig, Discrete-Variable Extrenum Problems.  Operations Research, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Apr., 1957), pp. 266-277.

[5] M. A. Duran, I. E. Grossmann, An Outer-Approximation Algorithm for a Class of Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programs.  Mathematical Programming, 36:307-339, 1986.

[6] D. M. Himmelblau, Applied Nonlinear Programming.  New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1972.

[7] W. Hock, K. Schittkowski, Test Examples for Nonlinear Programming Codes.  Springer-Verlag, 1981.

[8] M. Junger, T. M. Liebling, D. Naddef, G. L. Nemhauser, W. R. Pulleyblank, G. Reinelt, G.   Rinaldi, L. A. Woolsey--Editors, 50 Years of Integer Programming 1958-2008: From the Early Years to the State-of-the-Art.  Springer, 2010 Edition.  eBook; ISBN 978-3-540-68279-0

[9] Jack Lashover (November 12, 2012).  Monte Carlo Marching.  www.academia.edu/5481312/MONTE_ CARLO_MARCHING

[10] E. L. Lawler, M. D. Bell, A Method for Solving Discrete Optimization Problems.  Operations Research, Vol. 14, No. 6 (Nov. - Dec., 1966), pp. 1098-1112.

[11] E. L. Lawler, M. D. Bell, Errata: A Method for Solving Discrete Optimization Problems.  Operations Research, Vol. 15, No. 3 (May - June, 1967), p. 578.

[12] Duan Li, Xiaoling Sun, Nonlinear Integer Programming.  Springer Science+Business Media,LLC (2006).  http://www.books.google.ca/books?isbn=0387329951

[13] Microsoft Corp., BASIC, Second Edition (May 1982), Version 1.10. Boca Raton, Florida: IBM Corp., Personal Computer, P. O. Box 1328-C,Boca Raton, Floridda 33432, 1981.

[14] Harvey M. Salkin, Integer Programming.  Menlo Park, California: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company (1975).

[15] Harvey M. Salkin, Kamlesh Mathur, Foundations of Integer Programming.  Elsevier Science Ltd (1989).

[16] K. Schittkowski, More Test Examples for Nonlinear Programming Codes.  Springer-Verlag, 1987.

[17] S. Surjanovic, Zakharov Function.  www.sfu.ca/~ssurjano/zakharov.html

[18] Jsun Yui Wong (2012, April 23).  The Domino Method of General Integer Nonlinear Programming Applied to Problem 2 of Lawler and Bell.   http://computationalresultsfromcomputerprograms.wordpress.com/2012/04/23/

[19] Jsun Yui Wong (2013, September 4).  A Nonlinear Integer/Discrete/Continuous Programming Solver Applied to a Literature Problem with Twenty Binary Variables and Three Constraints, Third Edition.  http://myblogsubstance.typepad.com/substance/2013/09/

[20] Jsun Yui Wong (2014, June 27).  A Unified Computer Program for Schittkowski's Test Problem 377, Second Edition.  http://nonlinearintegerprogrammingsolver.blogspot.ca/2014_06_01_archive.html

Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming (MINLP) Solver Applied to a Nonlinear Integer Programming Problem with 10100 General Integer Variables of Lower Bounds of -10s and Upper Bounds of 10s

Jsun Yui Wong

Similar to the computer programs of the preceding papers, the computer program below seeks to solve a problem based on Li and Sun's Problem 14.4, [12, p. 415], but with 10100 unknowns instead of 100 unknowns and with lower bounds of -10s instead of -5s and upper bounds of 10s instead of 5s.  The function is based on the Rosenbrock function--see Schittkowski [16] and Li and Sun [12, p. 415].  Specifically, the test example here is as follows:

Minimize

10100-1
SIGMA    [  100*  ( X(i+1) - X(i)^2  )^2  +  (  1-X(i)   )^2   ]
i=1

subject to

-10<=X(i)<=10, X(i) integer, i=1, 2, 3,..., 10100.

One notes line 111 through line 117 and line 170 through line 173.

The following computer program uses Microsoft's GW-BASIC 3.11 interpreter for DOS.

0 DEFINT J,K,B,X
2 DIM A(10100),X(10100)
81 FOR JJJJ=-32000 TO 32000
89 RANDOMIZE JJJJ
90 M=-1.5D+38
111 FOR J44=1 TO 10100
114 A(J44)=-10+FIX(RND*21)
117 NEXT J44
128 FOR I=1 TO 32000 STEP .5
129 FOR KKQQ=1 TO 10100
130 X(KKQQ)=A(KKQQ)
131 NEXT KKQQ
139 FOR IPP=1 TO FIX(1+RND*.3)
140 B=1+FIX(RND*10100)
167 IF RND<.5 THEN X(B)=A(B)-1   ELSE X(B)=A(B) +1
169 NEXT IPP
170 FOR J44=1 TO 10100
171 IF X(J44)<-10 THEN X(J44 )=A(J44  )
172 IF X(J44)>10 THEN X(J44 )=A(J44  )
173 NEXT J44
200 SUMNEWZ=0
203 FOR J44=1 TO    10099
205 SUMNEWZ=SUMNEWZ+  100*  ( X(J44+1)-X(J44)^2  )^2  +  ( 1-X(J44 ) )  ^2
207 NEXT J44
511 SONE=   - SUMNEWZ
689 PD1=SONE
1111 IF PD1<=M THEN 1670
1452 M=PD1
1454 FOR KLX=1 TO 10100
1455 A(KLX)=X(KLX)
1456 NEXT KLX
1559 GOTO 128
1670 NEXT I
1771 PRINT A(1),A(2),A(3),A(4),A(5)
1899 PRINT A(9996),A(9997),A(9998),A(10099),A(10100),M,JJJJ
1999 NEXT JJJJ

This BASIC computer program was run via basica/D of Microsoft's GW-BASIC 3.11 interpreter for DOS.  See the BASIC manual [11].  Copied by hand from the screen, the computer program's complete output through JJJJ=-32000 is shown below:

1   1   1   1   1  
1   1   1   1   1
0        -32000

Above there is no rounding by hand; it is just straight copying by hand from the screen.

M=0 is optimal.  See Li and Sun [12, p. 415].

Of the 10100 A's, only the 10 A's of line 1771 and line 1899  are shown above.

On a personal computer with a Pentium Dual-Core CPU E5200 @2.50GHz, 2.50 GHz, 960 MB of RAM, and the IBM basica/D interpreter, version GW BASIC 3.11,  the wall-clock time for obtaining the output through JJJJ=-32000 was 16  hours.

Acknowledgment

I would like to acknowledge the encouragement of Roberta Clark and Tom Clark.

References

[1] E. Balas, An Additive Algorithm for Solving Linear Programs with Zero-One Variables.    Operations Research, Vol. 13, No. 4 (1965), pp. 517-548.

[2] E. Balas, Discrete Programming by the Filter Method.  Operations Research, Vol. 15, No. 5 (Sep. - Oct., 1967), pp. 915-957.

[3] F. Cajori (1911) Historical Note on the Newton-Raphson Method of Approximation.  The American Mathematical Monthly, Volume 18 #2, pp. 29-32.

[4] George B. Dantzig, Discrete-Variable Extrenum Problems.  Operations Research, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Apr., 1957), pp. 266-277.

[5] M. A. Duran, I. E. Grossmann, An Outer-Approximation Algorithm for a Class of Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programs.  Mathematical Programming, 36:307-339, 1986.

[6] D. M. Himmelblau, Applied Nonlinear Programming.  New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1972.

[7] W. Hock, K. Schittkowski, Test Examples for Nonlinear Programming Codes.  Springer-Verlag, 1981.

[8] M. Junger, T. M. Liebling, D. Naddef, G. L. Nemhauser, W. R. Pulleyblank, G. Reinelt, G.   Rinaldi, L. A. Woolsey--Editors, 50 Years of Integer Programming 1958-2008: From the Early Years to the State-of-the-Art.  Springer, 2010 Edition.  eBook; ISBN 978-3-540-68279-0

[9] Jack Lashover (November 12, 2012).  Monte Carlo Marching.  www.academia.edu/5481312/MONTE_ CARLO_MARCHING

[10] E. L. Lawler, M. D. Bell, A Method for Solving Discrete Optimization Problems.  Operations Research, Vol. 14, No. 6 (Nov. - Dec., 1966), pp. 1098-1112.

[11] E. L. Lawler, M. D. Bell, Errata: A Method for Solving Discrete Optimization Problems.  Operations Research, Vol. 15, No. 3 (May - June, 1967), p. 578.

[12] Duan Li, Xiaoling Sun, Nonlinear Integer Programming.  Springer Science+Business Media,LLC (2006).  http://www.books.google.ca/books?isbn=0387329951

[13] Microsoft Corp., BASIC, Second Edition (May 1982), Version 1.10. Boca Raton, Florida: IBM Corp., Personal Computer, P. O. Box 1328-C,Boca Raton, Floridda 33432, 1981.

[14] Harvey M. Salkin, Integer Programming.  Menlo Park, California: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company (1975).

[15] Harvey M. Salkin, Kamlesh Mathur, Foundations of Integer Programming.  Elsevier Science Ltd (1989).

[16] K. Schittkowski, More Test Examples for Nonlinear Programming Codes.  Springer-Verlag, 1987.

[17] S. Surjanovic, Zakharov Function.  www.sfu.ca/~ssurjano/zakharov.html

[18] Jsun Yui Wong (2012, April 23).  The Domino Method of General Integer Nonlinear Programming Applied to Problem 2 of Lawler and Bell.   http://computationalresultsfromcomputerprograms.wordpress.com/2012/04/23/

[19] Jsun Yui Wong (2013, September 4).  A Nonlinear Integer/Discrete/Continuous Programming Solver Applied to a Literature Problem with Twenty Binary Variables and Three Constraints, Third Edition.  http://myblogsubstance.typepad.com/substance/2013/09/

[20] Jsun Yui Wong (2014, June 27).  A Unified Computer Program for Schittkowski's Test Problem 377, Second Edition.  http://nonlinearintegerprogrammingsolver.blogspot.ca/2014_06_01_archive.html

Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming (MINLP) Solver Using Microsoft's GW-BASIC 3.11 Interpreter To Solve Li and Sun's Problem 14.4 but with 10100 Unknowns instead of 100 Unknowns

Jsun Yui Wong

Similar to the computer programs of the preceding papers, the computer program below seeks to solve Li and Sun's Problem 14.4, [12, p. 415], but with 10100 unknowns instead of 100 unknowns.  Specifically, the test example here is as follows:

Minimize

10100-1
SIGMA    [  100*  ( X(i+1) - X(i)^2  )^2  +  (  1-X(i)   )^2   ]
i=1

subject to

-5<=X(i)<=5, X(i) integer, i=1, 2, 3,..., 10100.

One notes line 111 through line 117 and line 170 through line 172.

The following computer program uses Microsoft's GW-BASIC 3.11 interpreter for DOS.

0 DEFINT J,K,B,X
2 DIM A(10100),X(10100)
81 FOR JJJJ=-32000 TO 32000
89 RANDOMIZE JJJJ
90 M=-1.5D+38
111 FOR J44=1 TO 10100
114 A(J44)=-5+FIX(RND*11)
117 NEXT J44
128 FOR I=1 TO 32000 STEP .5
129 FOR KKQQ=1 TO 10100
130 X(KKQQ)=A(KKQQ)
131 NEXT KKQQ
139 FOR IPP=1 TO FIX(1+RND*.3)
140 B=1+FIX(RND*10100)
167 IF RND<.5 THEN X(B)=A(B)-1   ELSE X(B)=A(B) +1
169 NEXT IPP
170 FOR J44=1 TO 10100
171 IF X(J44)<-5 THEN X(J44 )=A(J44  )
172 IF X(J44)>5 THEN X(J44 )=A(J44  )
173 NEXT J44
200 SUMNEWZ=0
203 FOR J44=1 TO    10099
205 SUMNEWZ=SUMNEWZ+  100*  ( X(J44+1)-X(J44)^2  )^2  +  ( 1-X(J44 ) )  ^2
207 NEXT J44
511 SONE=   - SUMNEWZ
689 PD1=SONE
1111 IF PD1<=M THEN 1670
1452 M=PD1
1454 FOR KLX=1 TO 10100
1455 A(KLX)=X(KLX)
1456 NEXT KLX
1559 GOTO 128
1670 NEXT I
1771 PRINT A(1),A(2),A(3),A(4),A(5)
1899 PRINT A(9996),A(9997),A(9998),A(10099),A(10100),M,JJJJ
1999 NEXT JJJJ

This BASIC computer program was run via basica/D of Microsoft's GW-BASIC 3.11 interpreter for DOS.  See the BASIC manual [11].  Copied by hand from the screen, the computer program's complete output through JJJJ=-32000 is shown below:

1   1   1   1   1
1   1   1   1   1
0        -32000

Above there is no rounding by hand; it is just straight copying by hand from the screen.

M=0 is optimal.  See Li and Sun [12, p. 415].

Of the 10100 A's, only the 10 A's of line 1771 and line 1899  are shown above.

On a personal computer with a Pentium Dual-Core CPU E5200 @2.50GHz, 2.50 GHz, 960 MB of RAM, and the IBM basica/D interpreter, version GW BASIC 3.11,  the wall-clock time for obtaining the output through JJJJ=-32000 was seven hours.

Acknowledgment

I would like to acknowledge the encouragement of Roberta Clark and Tom Clark.

References

[1] E. Balas, An Additive Algorithm for Solving Linear Programs with Zero-One Variables.    Operations Research, Vol. 13, No. 4 (1965), pp. 517-548.

[2] E. Balas, Discrete Programming by the Filter Method.  Operations Research, Vol. 15, No. 5 (Sep. - Oct., 1967), pp. 915-957.

[3] F. Cajori (1911) Historical Note on the Newton-Raphson Method of Approximation.  The American Mathematical Monthly, Volume 18 #2, pp. 29-32.

[4] George B. Dantzig, Discrete-Variable Extrenum Problems.  Operations Research, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Apr., 1957), pp. 266-277.

[5] M. A. Duran, I. E. Grossmann, An Outer-Approximation Algorithm for a Class of Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programs.  Mathematical Programming, 36:307-339, 1986.

[6] D. M. Himmelblau, Applied Nonlinear Programming.  New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1972.

[7] W. Hock, K. Schittkowski, Test Examples for Nonlinear Programming Codes.  Springer-Verlag, 1981.

[8] M. Junger, T. M. Liebling, D. Naddef, G. L. Nemhauser, W. R. Pulleyblank, G. Reinelt, G.   Rinaldi, L. A. Woolsey--Editors, 50 Years of Integer Programming 1958-2008: From the Early Years to the State-of-the-Art.  Springer, 2010 Edition.  eBook; ISBN 978-3-540-68279-0

[9] Jack Lashover (November 12, 2012).  Monte Carlo Marching.  www.academia.edu/5481312/MONTE_ CARLO_MARCHING

[10] E. L. Lawler, M. D. Bell, A Method for Solving Discrete Optimization Problems.  Operations Research, Vol. 14, No. 6 (Nov. - Dec., 1966), pp. 1098-1112.

[11] E. L. Lawler, M. D. Bell, Errata: A Method for Solving Discrete Optimization Problems.  Operations Research, Vol. 15, No. 3 (May - June, 1967), p. 578.

[12] Duan Li, Xiaoling Sun, Nonlinear Integer Programming.  Springer Science+Business Media,LLC (2006).  http://www.books.google.ca/books?isbn=0387329951

[13] Microsoft Corp., BASIC, Second Edition (May 1982), Version 1.10. Boca Raton, Florida: IBM Corp., Personal Computer, P. O. Box 1328-C,Boca Raton, Floridda 33432, 1981.

[14] Harvey M. Salkin, Integer Programming.  Menlo Park, California: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company (1975).

[15] Harvey M. Salkin, Kamlesh Mathur, Foundations of Integer Programming.  Elsevier Science Ltd (1989).

[16] K. Schittkowski, More Test Examples for Nonlinear Programming Codes.  Springer-Verlag, 1987.

[17] S. Surjanovic, Zakharov Function.  www.sfu.ca/~ssurjano/zakharov.html

[18] Jsun Yui Wong (2012, April 23).  The Domino Method of General Integer Nonlinear Programming Applied to Problem 2 of Lawler and Bell.   http://computationalresultsfromcomputerprograms.wordpress.com/2012/04/23/

[19] Jsun Yui Wong (2013, September 4).  A Nonlinear Integer/Discrete/Continuous Programming Solver Applied to a Literature Problem with Twenty Binary Variables and Three Constraints, Third Edition.  http://myblogsubstance.typepad.com/substance/2013/09/

[20] Jsun Yui Wong (2014, June 27).  A Unified Computer Program for Schittkowski's Test Problem 377, Second Edition.  http://nonlinearintegerprogrammingsolver.blogspot.ca/2014_06_01_archive.html

Monday, December 22, 2014

Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming (MINLP) Solver Applied to Li and Sun's Problem 14.5 but with 10000 Unknowns (instead of 100 Unknowns) and an Additional Constraint, X(1)^2+X(2)^2+X(3)^2+...+X(10000)^2 <= 10000

Jsun Yui Wong

Similar to the computer programs of the preceding papers, the computer program below seeks to solve Li and Sun's Problem 14.5, [12, p. 416], but with an additional less-than-or-equal-to constraint and with 10000 unknowns instead of 100 unknowns.  Specifically, the test example here is as follows:

Minimize


10000                                  10000
SIGMA   X(i)^4    +  [    SIGMA    X(i)         ]^2
i=1                                        i=1

subject to

X(1)^2+X(2)^2+X(3)^2+...+X(10000)^2 <= 10000

-5<=X(i)<=5, X(i) integer, i=1, 2, 3,..., 10000.

One notes line 83 through line 87 and line 170 through line 173.

The present paper uses the IBM Personal Computer BASIC Compiler--through A:\>bascom and A:\>link--Copyright IBM Corp 1982 Version 1.00/Copyright Microsoft, Inc. 1982.

0 DEFINT J,K,B,X
2 DIM A(10001),X(10001)
81 FOR JJJJ=-32000 TO 32000
83 LB=-FIX(RND*6)
87 UB=FIX(RND*6)
89 RANDOMIZE JJJJ
90 M=-1.5D+38
111 FOR J44=1 TO 10000
114 IF RND<.5 THEN A(J44)=0 ELSE A(J44)=1
117 NEXT J44
128 FOR I=1 TO 32000
129 FOR KKQQ=1 TO 10000
130 X(KKQQ)=A(KKQQ)
131 NEXT KKQQ
139 FOR IPP=1 TO FIX(1+RND*.3)
140 B=1+FIX(RND*10000)
167 IF RND<.5 THEN X(B)=(A(B)-1)   ELSE X(B)=(A(B)     +1   )
169 NEXT IPP
170 FOR J44=1 TO 10000
171 IF X(J44)<LB THEN X(J44 )=A(J44  )
172 IF X(J44)>UP THEN X(J44 )=A(J44  )
173 NEXT J44
174 SUMNEW=0
175 FOR J44=1 TO 10000
176 SUMNEW=SUMNEW+X(J44)  ^2
177 NEXT J44
178  X(10001)=10000- SUMNEW
179 IF X(10001)<0 THEN X(10001)=X(10001) ELSE X(10001)=0
182 SUMY=0
183 FOR J44=1 TO 10000
185 SUMY=SUMY+X(J44)^4
187 NEXT J44
200 SUMNEWZ=0
203 FOR J44=1 TO          10000
205 SUMNEWZ=SUMNEWZ+     X(J44)
207 NEXT J44
689 PD1=-SUMY-SUMNEWZ^2    +50000!*X(10001)
1111 IF PD1<=M THEN 1670
1452 M=PD1
1454 FOR KLX=1 TO 10001
1455 A(KLX)=X(KLX)
1456 NEXT KLX
1559 GOTO 128
1670 NEXT I
1953 PRINT A(1),A(2),A(3),A(4),A(5)
1965 PRINT A(7996),A(7997),A(7998),A(7999),A(8000)
1966 PRINT M,JJJJ
1999 NEXT JJJJ

This BASIC computer program was run with the IBM Personal Computer BASIC Compiler, Version 1.00.  See the BASIC manual [11, page iii, Preface].  Copied by hand from the screen, the computer program's complete output through JJJJ=-31996 is shown below:

0   -1   -1   -1   0  
0   -1   0   -1   -1
-5610        -32000

-1   0   -1   -1   -1
0   0   1   -1   1
-4984       -31999

0   0   0   0   0
0   0   0   0   0
0        -31998

-1   0   0   -1   0  
0   0   0   0   0
-5564        -31997

0   0   0   0   0
0   0   0   0   0
0        -31996

Above there is no rounding by hand; it is just straight copying by hand from the screen.

M=0 is optimal.  See Li and Sun [12, p. 416].

Of the 10000 A's, only the 10 A's of line 1953 through line 1965  are shown above.

On a personal computer with a Pentium Dual-Core CPU E5200 @2.50GHz, 2.50 GHz, 960 MB of RAM, and  the IBM Personal Computer BASIC Compiler, Copyright IBM Corp 1982 Version 1.00/Copyright Microsoft, Inc. 1982, the wall-clock time for obtaining the output through JJJJ=-31996 was three hours.

Acknowledgment

I would like to acknowledge the encouragement of Roberta Clark and Tom Clark.

References

[1] E. Balas, An Additive Algorithm for Solving Linear Programs with Zero-One Variables.    Operations Research, Vol. 13, No. 4 (1965), pp. 517-548.

[2] E. Balas, Discrete Programming by the Filter Method.  Operations Research, Vol. 15, No. 5 (Sep. - Oct., 1967), pp. 915-957.

[3] F. Cajori (1911) Historical Note on the Newton-Raphson Method of Approximation.  The American Mathematical Monthly, Volume 18 #2, pp. 29-32.

[4] George B. Dantzig, Discrete-Variable Extrenum Problems.  Operations Research, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Apr., 1957), pp. 266-277.

[5] M. A. Duran, I. E. Grossmann, An Outer-Approximation Algorithm for a Class of Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programs.  Mathematical Programming, 36:307-339, 1986.

[6] D. M. Himmelblau, Applied Nonlinear Programming.  New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1972.

[7] W. Hock, K. Schittkowski, Test Examples for Nonlinear Programming Codes.  Springer-Verlag, 1981.

[8] M. Junger, T. M. Liebling, D. Naddef, G. L. Nemhauser, W. R. Pulleyblank, G. Reinelt, G.   Rinaldi, L. A. Woolsey--Editors, 50 Years of Integer Programming 1958-2008: From the Early Years to the State-of-the-Art.  Springer, 2010 Edition.  eBook; ISBN 978-3-540-68279-0

[9] Jack Lashover (November 12, 2012).  Monte Carlo Marching.  www.academia.edu/5481312/MONTE_ CARLO_MARCHING

[10] E. L. Lawler, M. D. Bell, A Method for Solving Discrete Optimization Problems.  Operations Research, Vol. 14, No. 6 (Nov. - Dec., 1966), pp. 1098-1112.

[11] E. L. Lawler, M. D. Bell, Errata: A Method for Solving Discrete Optimization Problems.  Operations Research, Vol. 15, No. 3 (May - June, 1967), p. 578.

[12] Duan Li, Xiaoling Sun, Nonlinear Integer Programming.  Springer Science+Business Media,LLC (2006).  http://www.books.google.ca/books?isbn=0387329951

[13] Microsoft Corp., BASIC, Second Edition (May 1982), Version 1.10. Boca Raton, Florida: IBM Corp., Personal Computer, P. O. Box 1328-C,Boca Raton, Floridda 33432, 1981.

[14] Harvey M. Salkin, Integer Programming.  Menlo Park, California: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company (1975).

[15] Harvey M. Salkin, Kamlesh Mathur, Foundations of Integer Programming.  Elsevier Science Ltd (1989).

[16] K. Schittkowski, More Test Examples for Nonlinear Programming Codes.  Springer-Verlag, 1987.

[17] S. Surjanovic, Zakharov Function.  www.sfu.ca/~ssurjano/zakharov.html

[18] Jsun Yui Wong (2012, April 23).  The Domino Method of General Integer Nonlinear Programming Applied to Problem 2 of Lawler and Bell.   http://computationalresultsfromcomputerprograms.wordpress.com/2012/04/23/

[19] Jsun Yui Wong (2013, September 4).  A Nonlinear Integer/Discrete/Continuous Programming Solver Applied to a Literature Problem with Twenty Binary Variables and Three Constraints, Third Edition.  http://myblogsubstance.typepad.com/substance/2013/09/

[20] Jsun Yui Wong (2014, June 27).  A Unified Computer Program for Schittkowski's Test Problem 377, Second Edition.  http://nonlinearintegerprogrammingsolver.blogspot.ca/2014_06_01_archive.html