APPSPACK swMATH ID: 4400 Software Authors: Genetha A. Gray; Tamara G. Kolda Description: APPSPACK is software for solving unconstrained and bound-constrained optimization problems. It implements an asynchronous parallel pattern search method that has been specifically designed for problems characterized by expensive function evaluations. Using APPSPACK to solve optimization problems has several advantages: No derivative information is needed; the procedure for evaluating the objective function can be executed via a separate program or script; the code can be run serially or in parallel, regardless of whether the function evaluation itself is parallel; and the software is freely available. We describe the underlying algorithm, data structures, and features of APPSPACK version 4.0, as well as how to use and customize the software. Homepage: https://software.sandia.gov//appspack/version5.0/index.html Programming Languages: C++ Keywords: Parallel derivative-free optimization; pattern search Related Software: NOMAD; NEWUOA; CUTEr; DFO; SDPEN; HOPSPACK; DIRECT; SifDec; MultiMin; OrthoMADS; DFN; ORBIT; KELLEY; mctoolbox; minpack; GitHub; MCS; SNOBFIT; UOBYQA; MLMSRBF Cited in: 31 Publications Standard Articles 1 Publication describing the Software, including 1 Publication in zbMATH Year Algorithm 856: APPSPACK 4.0: Asynchronous parallel pattern search for derivative-free optimization. Zbl 1230.90196Gray, Genetha Anne; Kolda, Tamara G. 2006 all top 5 Cited by 66 Authors 6 Kolda, Tamara Gibson 4 Griffin, Joshua D. 4 Wild, Stefan M. 3 Gray, Genetha Anne 3 Hogea, Cosmina S. 3 Le Digabel, Sébastien 2 Audet, Charles 2 Biros, George 2 Davatzikos, Christos 2 Larson, Jeffrey 2 Regis, Rommel G. 2 Vicente, Luis Nunes 1 Ahmadvand, Mohammad 1 Amaran, Satyajith 1 Baynat, Bruno 1 Begin, Thomas 1 Berahas, Albert S. 1 Brandwajn, Alexandre 1 Bury, Scott J. 1 Byrd, Richard H. 1 Chen, Chaohui 1 Conn, Andrew Roger 1 Custódio, Ana Luísa 1 Dang, C.-K. 1 Dennis, John E. jun. 1 Eitrich, Tatjana 1 El-Khamra, Yaakoub 1 Elman, Howard C. 1 Esmaeilbeigi, Mohsen 1 Gao, Guohua 1 Gramacy, Robert B. 1 Hare, Warren L. 1 Kamandi, Ahmad 1 Lakhmiri, Dounia 1 Lang, Bruno 1 Lee, Herbert K. H. 1 Lewis, Robert Michael 1 Linkletter, Crystal 1 Liuzzi, Giampaolo 1 Long, Kevin R. 1 Lucet, Yves 1 Ma, Kaiwen 1 Menickelly, Matt 1 Mondal, Sukanto 1 Moré, Jorge J. 1 Murray, Bruce T. 1 Nocedal, Jorge 1 Orban, Dominique 1 Pinho, D. 1 Rajagopalan, Sreekanth 1 Rocha, Humberto 1 Sahinidis, Nikolaos V. 1 Sale, Ken 1 Scheinberg, Katya 1 Sethian, James A. 1 Shoemaker, Christine A. 1 Shuttleworth, Robert R. 1 Sourd, Francis 1 Tarrahi, Mohammadali 1 Templeton, Jeremy A. 1 Truemper, Klaus 1 Vaz, A. Ismael F. 1 Vink, Jeroen C. 1 Yaghoobi, Farajollah Mohammadi 1 Young, Malin M. 1 Zhang, Hongchao all top 5 Cited in 20 Serials 4 SIAM Journal on Optimization 3 SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing 2 Journal of Mathematical Biology 2 ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software 2 Computers & Operations Research 2 Computational Optimization and Applications 1 International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids 1 Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics 1 Journal of Global Optimization 1 Computational and Applied Mathematics 1 INFORMS Journal on Computing 1 Optimization Methods & Software 1 Computational Geosciences 1 Optimization and Engineering 1 AMRX. Applied Mathematics Research eXpress 1 Acta Numerica 1 Pacific Journal of Optimization 1 Optimization Letters 1 Mathematical Programming Computation 1 SN Operations Research Forum all top 5 Cited in 10 Fields 26 Operations research, mathematical programming (90-XX) 13 Numerical analysis (65-XX) 6 Computer science (68-XX) 4 Biology and other natural sciences (92-XX) 3 Partial differential equations (35-XX) 2 Calculus of variations and optimal control; optimization (49-XX) 2 Mechanics of deformable solids (74-XX) 1 Linear and multilinear algebra; matrix theory (15-XX) 1 Statistics (62-XX) 1 Fluid mechanics (76-XX) Citations by Year