Quadratic programming test problems -- Quadratically constrained test problems -- Nonlinear programming test problems -- Distillation column sequencing test problems -- Pooling/blending test problems -- Heat exchanger network synthesis test problems -- Phase and chemical reaction equilibrium test problems -- Comlpex chemical reactor network test problems -- Reactor-seperator-recycle system test problems -- Mechanical design test problems -- VLSI design test problems.

Significant research activity has occurred in the area of global optimization in recent years. Many new theoretical, algorithmic, and computational contributions have resulted. Despite the major importance of test problems for researchers, there has been a lack of representative nonconvex test problems for constrained global optimization algorithms. This book is motivated by the scarcity of global optimization test problems and represents the first systematic collection of test problems for evaluating and testing constrained global optimization algorithms. This collection includes problems arising in a variety of engineering applications, and test problems from published computational reports.