@Book{nlpor14,
  Isbn = {978-1-118-56928-3},
  Language = { English },
  Pages = { 304 p. },
  Publisher = {John Wiley \& Sons: Chichester},
  Type = { Book },
  author = {Nash, John C.},
  title = {{Nonlinear Parameter Optimization Using R Tools}},
  month = {May},
  year = {2014},
  url = {http://www.wiley.com//legacy/wileychi/nash/},
  note = {Companion website (see http://www.wiley.com//legacy/wileychi/nash/).
   JNfile: 14nlpor.pdf}
}


@Manual{p-Rmpfr,
    title = {Rmpfr: R MPFR - Multiple Precision Floating-Point Reliable},
    author = {Martin Maechler},
    year = {2013},
    note = {R package version 0.5-3},
    url = {http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=Rmpfr},
  }

@article{TienEarn10,
   author = {J H Tien and D J D Earn},
   year = {2010},
   title = {Multiple transmission pathways and disease dynamics in a waterborne pathogen  model},
   journal = {Bulletin of Mathematical Biology},
   volume = {72},
   number ={6},
   pages ={1506--1533}
}

@Article{grofit10,
    title = {{grofit}: Fitting Biological Growth Curves with {R}},
    author = {Matthias Kahm and Guido Hasenbrink and Hella Lichtenberg-Frat\'{e} and Jost Ludwig and Maik Kschischo},
    journal = {Journal of Statistical Software},
    year = {2010},
    volume = {33},
    number = {7},
    pages = {1--21},
    url = {http://www.jstatsoft.org/v33/i07/}
  }


@article{linbench03,
   title = {The {LINPACK} Benchmark: Past, Present, and Future}, 
   author = {J. J. Dongarra and P. Luszczek and A. Petitet}, 
   journal = {Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience},
   volume = {15},
   number = {9},
   pages = {803--820},
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   year = {2003}
}

@Manual{p-nnls,
    title = {{nnls:} The Lawson-Hanson algorithm for non-negative least squares {(NNLS)}},
    author = {Katharine M. Mullen and Ivo H. M. van Stokkum},
    year = {2012},
    note = {R package version 1.4},
    url = {http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=nnls}
}  

@Manual{p-fitdistrplus,
    title = {fitdistrplus: help to fit of a parametric distribution to non-censored or censored data },
    author = {Marie Laure Delignette-Muller and Regis Pouillot and Jean-Baptiste Denis and Christophe Dutang},
    year = {2013},
    note = {R package version 1.0-1}
  }

@Manual{p-nlstools,
    title = {nlstools: tools for nonlinear regression diagnostics},
    author = {Florent Baty and Marie-Laure Delignette-Muller},
    year = {2013},
    note = {R package version 0.0-15},
}

@MISC{Fox-sem,
    author = {John Fox},
    title = {{TEACHER’S CORNER} Structural Equation Modeling With the sem Package in {R}},
    journal = {STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING},
    volume =  13,
    numeber = 3, 
    pages = {465–-486}, 
    year = {2006}
}

@Manual{p-gnm,
    title = {Generalized nonlinear models in R: An overview of the gnm package},
    author = {Heather Turner and David Firth},
    year = {2012},
    note = {R package version 1.0-6},
    url = {http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=gnm},
  }


@Manual{p-nlme,
    title = {nlme: Linear and Nonlinear Mixed Effects Models},
    author = {Jose Pinheiro and Douglas Bates and Saikat DebRoy and Deepayan Sarkar and {R Core Team}},
    year = {2013},
    note = {R package version 3.1-111},
  }


@Manual{citeR,
    title = {R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing},
    author = {{R Core Team}},
    organization = {R Foundation for Statistical Computing},
    address = {Vienna, Austria},
    year = {2013},
    url = {http://www.R-project.org/}
}

@Manual{p-bbmle,
    title = {bbmle: Tools for general maximum likelihood estimation},
    author = {Ben Bolker and R Development Core Team},
    year = {2013},
    note = {R package version 1.0.13},
    url = {http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=bbmle},
}



@Manual{p-ROI,
    title = {ROI: R Optimization Infrastructure},
    author = {Kurt Hornik and David Meyer and Stefan Theussl},
    year = {2011},
    note = {R package version 0.0-7},
    url = {http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=ROI}
  }

@Manual{p-Rsymphony,
    title = {Rsymphony: Symphony in R},
    author = {Reinhard Harter and Kurt Hornik and Stefan Theussl},
    year = {2013},
    note = {R package version 0.1-16},
    url = {http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=Rsymphony}
  }

@Manual{p-Rglpk,
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    author = {Stefan Theussl and Kurt Hornik},
    year = {2013},
    note = {R package version 0.5-1},
    url = {http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=Rglpk}
}

@Manual{p-linprog,
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    author = {Arne Henningsen},
    year = {2012},
    note = {R package version 0.9-2},
    url = {http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=linprog}
}


@Manual{p-lpSolve,
    title = {{lpSolve: Interface to Lp\_solve v. 5.5 to solve linear / integer programs}},
    author = {Michel Berkelaar and {others}},
    year = {2013},
    note = {R package version 5.6.7},
    url = {http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=lpSolve}
}

@Article{p-kernlab,
    title = {kernlab -- An {S4} Package for Kernel Methods in {R}},
    author = {Alexandros Karatzoglou and Alex Smola and Kurt Hornik and Achim Zeileis},
    journal = {Journal of Statistical Software},
    year = {2004},
    volume = {11},
    number = {9},
    pages = {1--20},
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  }


 @Manual{p-quadprog,
    title = {quadprog: Functions to solve Quadratic Programming Problems.},
    author = {S original by Berwin A. Turlach R port by Andreas Weingessel},
    year = {2013},
    note = {R package version 1.5-5},
    url = {http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=quadprog}
  }

@Manual{p-Rsolnp,
    title = {Rsolnp: General
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    url = {http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=Rsolnp}
}

@PhDThesis{Ye1987,
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}
 

@Manual{p-alabama,
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    year = {2012},
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    url = {http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=alabama}
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@Manual{p-adagio,
    title = {adagio: Discrete and Global Optimization Routines},
    author = {Hans Werner Borchers},
    year = {2013},
    note = {R package version 0.5.9},
    url = {http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=adagio}
}


@article{Pachon2009,
author = {Pach\'{o}n, R. and Trefethen, L. N.},
doi = {10.1007/s10543-009-0240-1},
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number = {4},
pages = {721--741},
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volume = {49},
year = {2009}
}

@Manual{p-sem,
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    author = {John Fox and Zhenghua Nie and Jarrett Byrnes},
    year = {2013},
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    url = {http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=sem}
}


@Article{p-systemfit,
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@Manual{p-nleqslv,
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    author = {Berend Hasselman},
    year = {2013},
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}

@Article{p-GA,
    title = {{GA}: A Package for Genetic Algorithms in {R}},
    author = {Luca Scrucca},
    journal = {Journal of Statistical Software},
    year = {2013},
    volume = {53},
    number = {4},
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    url = {http://www.jstatsoft.org/v53/i04/}
}


@article {BUGS09,
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@Manual{p-R2admb,
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    author = {Ben Bolker and Hans Skaug and Jeff Laake},
    year = {2013},
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    url = {http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=R2admb},
}


@Manual{p-PBSadmb,
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    author = {Jon T. Schnute and Rowan Haigh and Alex Couture-Beil},
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    url = {http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=PBSadmb},
}


@Misc{R-extns,
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  title         = {{Writing \R\ Extensions}},
  year          = {2013},
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}

  @Manual{p-gaoptim,
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permutation-based problems},
    author = {Fernando Tenorio},
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  }

@Manual{p-trustOptim,
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          Hessians},
    author = {Michael Braun},
    year = {2013},
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}


@Misc{NLoptSJ,
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   year  = 2008
}


@Manual{p-trust,
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    author = {Charles J. Geyer},
    year = {2013},
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    url = {http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=trust}
}



@Manual{p-nloptwrap,
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    year = {2013},
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    url = {http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=nloptwrap}
}


@Manual{p-nloptr,
    title = {nloptr: \R\ interface to {NLopt}},
    author = {Jelmer Ypma},
    year = {2013},
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    url = {http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=nloptr}
}


  @Manual{p-ucminf,
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    url = {http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=ucminf}
 }


@Article{JNRV11,
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@Manual{microbench13,
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}

@Manual{rbenchmark12,
    title = {rbenchmark: Benchmarking routine for R},
    author = {Wacek Kusnierczyk},
    year = {2012},
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    url = {http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=rbenchmark},
}

@book{AIMMS06,
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@Manual{quantreg13,
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@Manual{ Molga2005,
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@ARTICLE{TZ89,
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@Manual{LMurphy12,
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@Article{ GenSA13,
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  title        = { Generalized Simulated Annealing for Global Optimization: the GenSA Package for R },
  journal      = { The R Journal },
  year         = { 2013 },
  volume       = { 5 },
  number       = { 1 },
  pages        = { 13--29 },
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}


@Article{Grassmann12,
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@Manual{Rmalschains12,
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@Manual{DEoptim13,
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  url = {http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=DEoptim},
}

@Article{DEoptimJSS11,
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@Article{DEoptimRjournal11,
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@Article{DEoptimWilmott11,
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@Manual{RcppDE12,
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@Manual{smco12,
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}

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@Manual{p-pracma,
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@article{OlearyRust13,
year={2013},
issn={0926-6003},
journal={Computational Optimization and Applications},
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