摘要: This chapter provides a brief survey of existing software tools that enable, facilitate, and/or support the integration different optimization techniques. We focus on have achieved reasonable level maturity and whose published results demonstrated their effectiveness. The description each tool is not intended to be comprehensive. include references links detailed accounts for interested reader, we recommend reader consult his/her developers vendors latest information about upgrades improvements. Our purpose summarize main features tool, highlighting what it can (or cannot) do, given current version at time writing. conclude with suggestions future research directions.