MinFinder: Locating all the local minima of a function

A new stochastic clustering algorithm is introduced that aims to locate all the local minima of a multidimensional continuous and differentiable function inside a bounded domain. The accompanying software (MinFinder) is written in ANSI C++. However, the user may code his objective function either in C++, C or Fortran 77. We compare the performance of this new method to the performance of Multistart and Topographical Multilevel Single Linkage Clustering on a set of benchmark problems. Program summary Title of program: MinFinder Catalogue identifier: ADWU Program summary URL: http://cpc.cs.qub.ac.uk/summaries/ADWU Program obtainable from: CPC Program Library, Queen's University of Belfast, N. Ireland Computer for which the program is designed and others on which is has been tested: The tool is designed to be portable in all systems running the GNU C++ compiler Installation: University of Ioannina, Greece Programming language used: GNU-C++, GNU-C, GNU Fortran 77 Memory required to e...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2006
• Where: CPHYSICS
• Authors: Ioannis G. Tsoulos, Isaac E. Lagaris
• Keywords: CPHYSICS 2006, Fortran 77, Local Minima, Program Summary