A Comparison of Optimization Programmes

Abstract

The thesis is focused on various free available software, designed for mathematical optimization. In the first section, the current offerings on the optimization software market are introduced. Further on, the thesis is dealing in details with selected pieces of software products – specifically GAMS, LINGO, QMS web service (Quantitative Methods Software) and Investigator tool, embedded in MS Office Excel application. The closing part, then, is concerned with testing and comparison of above presented software products, employing the performance tests with pre-selected optimization tasks