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Nomad 4 User Guide

Warning

This user guide is specific to NOMAD 4.

NOMAD 3 is still available. It will be replaced by NOMAD 4 in the future.

Get NOMAD 3 and 4 at https://www.gerad.ca/nomad/.

NOMAD is a blackbox optimization software. A general presentation of NOMAD is given in introduction.

New users of NOMAD should refer to

• installation
• getting_started

Using NOMAD

• Starting from basic_nomad_usage, all users can find ways to tailor problem definition, algorithmic settings and software output.
• Refer to advanced_functionalities and tricks_of_the_trade for specific problem solving.

Please cite NOMAD 4 with reference:

Reference book

A complete introduction to derivative-free and blackbox optimization can be found in the textbook:

Introduction

Installation

GettingStarted HowToUseNomad LibraryMode TricksOfTheTrade AdvancedFunctionalities SgteLib

ReleaseNotes Appendix

Indices and tables

• genindex
• modindex
• search

AuHa2017

C. Audet and W. Hare. Derivative-Free and Blackbox Optimization. Springer Series in Operations Research and Financial Engineering. Springer International Publishing, Berlin, 2017.

AuLeRoTr2021

C. Audet, S. Le Digabel, V. Rochon Montplaisir, and C. Tribes. NOMAD version 4: Nonlinear optimization with the MADS algorithm. Submitted.