A modification of the standard Simulated Annealing (SA) algorithm is presented for finding the global minimum of a continuous multidimensional, multimodal function. We report resu...
: - This paper introduces the main ideas of the nested partitions (NP) method, analyses its efficiency theoretically and proposes the way to improve the optimization efficiency of ...
This paper presents a problem-independent framework that uni es various mechanisms for solving discrete constrained nonlinear programming (NLP) problems whose functions are not ne...
This paper presents a new Memetic Algorithm designed to compute near optimal solutions for the MinLA problem. It incorporates a highly specialized crossover operator, a fast MinLA ...
Eduardo Rodriguez-Tello, Jin-Kao Hao, Jose Torres-...
Abstract— Meta-heuristic optimization approaches are commonly applied to many discrete optimization problems. Many of these optimization approaches are based on a local search op...