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The key issues in performance evaluation and computational testing were raised during the NATO Advanced Research Institute on Nonlinear Programming, Cambridge, UK, July 1981 (see Powell (1982)). Briefly summarized, they are as follows:
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Lootsma, F.A. (1985). Comparative Performance Evaluation, Experimental Design, and Generation of Test Problems in Non-Linear Optimization. In: Schittkowski, K. (eds) Computational Mathematical Programming. NATO ASI Series, vol 15. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82450-0_8
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