We would like to acknowledge the developers of the following third-party software that are currently utilized by BARON.

• The following codes from the COIN-OR project are embedded into and utilized by all versions of BARON:
  • CBC for the solution of linear and integer optimization problems
  • FilterSD for the solution of nonlinear optimization problems
  • IPOPT for the solution of nonlinear optimization problems
• Also embedded and utilized by all versions of BARON are:
  • BLAS, LAPACK and LUMOD for linear algebra problems
  • FilterSQP for the solution of nonlinear optimization problems
  • HSL routines. HSL is a collection of Fortran codes for large-scale scientific computation. See http://www.hsl.rl.ac.uk/
  • METIS for graph partitioning
• All versions of BARON are additionally capable of dynamically loading and utilizing CPLEX for the solution of linear and integer optimization problems.
• Under the AIMMS, AMPL and GAMS modeling systems, BARON has access to numerous additional optimization codes, including CONOPT, KNITRO, MINOS and SNOPT.
• The Windows version of BARON utilizes the pthreads-win32 library.  For this library, we provide its license, source code, list of contributors, and instructions on how to modify it, if desired, and use it with BARON here.