Welcome to the CIAO-GO website.

Decision problems arise in the context of various scientific, engineering and economic applications. Such problems are frequently modeled by minimizing (or maximizing) the value of an objective function under certain feasibility constraints. Global optimization is aimed at finding the 'absolutely best' solution of such decision models, in the presence of multiple locally optimal solutions.

The purpose of the CIAO-GO optimization software is to assist in the formulation and solution of highly nonlinear models under general structural assumptions.

CIAO-GO integrates global and local scope solver modules. CIAO-GO can also be embedded under a menu-driven user interface, to assist the application development process. CIAO-GO is also available for workstations; furthermore, it can be connected to a broad variety of advanced numerical modelling environments, and to customized user applications.