Take a look at ECJ.  You can find a link to it from the ECLab webpage.

Liviu.

On Fri, 21 Jul 2006, Michael Makowsky wrote:

> I've posted this before, but I wanted to send out one more ping before I
> bought something. I am looking for a simple numerical optimization algorithm
> to use in one of my MASON models. I am currently trying to optimize a really
> easy quasi-concave function using a computationally expensive grid search. A
> simple numerical algorithm would really speed things up.
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