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cscoging@unpcs1.cs.unp.ac.za (Chris Scogings) writes:

>I am testing various optimization methods and I need some problems to test 
>them out on.  These problems must not be too simple (I have already used 
>Rosenbrock's function, etc.) but must not be so complicated that I spend all 
>my time setting up the function and not optimising it.

>Ideally, I need a moderately complex function of 3 to 8 variables.  It is 
>not necessary for the function to be differentiable.  Results of the 
>optimization and comparisons between various methods will be posted if 
>anyone is interested.

If you are working on global optimization approaches, you should
check out the problem sets described in the following two books:

Aimo Torn, Antanas Zilinskas.
Global optimization 
Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, c1989

C.A. Floudas, P.M. Pardalos.
A collection of test problems for constrained global optimization algorithms
Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, 1990


--Bill