Esopo is a web-based environment for solving optimization problems and for evaluating the performances of optimization software.
Esopo was developed within the MIUR-FIRB Project "Large Scale Nonlinear Optimization (LSNO)" in 2005. All people involved with this project contributed to the design of ESOPO with software, documentation and own experiences. Now the same people is engaged in improving the ESOPO environment in order to add new tools and functionalities.
Esopo provides users with ready access to a growing library of academic optimization software, which is available through easy-to-use web interfaces and is equipped with drivers for using the most common problem modeling languages (SIF, AMPL). Furthermore, Esopo makes available a wide selection of test problems either from well-known collections (CUTEr, COPS) or from collections developed in the LSNO project. Finally, Esopo provides users with tools that allow to perform software comparison according to parameters that have been recently introduced for evaluating the performances of optimization software.