| Article ID: | iaor2003736 |
| Country: | Germany |
| Volume: | 91 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Start Page Number: | 201 |
| End Page Number: | 213 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2002 |
| Journal: | Mathematical Programming |
| Authors: | Dolan E.D., Mor J.J. |
| Keywords: | benchmarking |
We propose performance profiles – distribution functions for a performance metric – as a tool for benchmarking and comparing optimization software. We show that performance profiles combine the best features of other tools for performance evaluation.