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Global Optimization

From Theory to Implementation

  • Source of ideas for people who need to implement global optimization software
  • Focuses on implementation of algorithms, whereas most global optimization literature focuses on theory
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Nonconvex Optimization and Its Applications (NOIA, volume 84)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Implementations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 134-134
    2. GLOB — A new VNS-based Software for Global Optimization

      • M. Drazić, V. Kovacevic-Vujcić, M. Cangalović, N. Mladenović
      Pages 135-154
    3. Disciplined Convex Programming

      • Michael Grant, Stephen Boyd, Yinyu Ye
      Pages 155-210
    4. Writing Global Optimization Software

      • Leo Liberti
      Pages 211-262
    5. MathOptimizer Professional: Key Features and Illustrative Applications

      • János D. PintĂ©r, Frank J. Kampas
      Pages 263-279
    6. Variable Neighborhood Search for Extremal Graphs 14: The AutoGraphiX 2 System

      • M. Aouchiche, J. M. Bonnefoy, A. Fidahoussen, G. Caporossi, P. Hansen, L. Hiesse et al.
      Pages 281-310
    7. From Theory to Implementation: Applying Metaheuristics.

      • I. J. GarcĂ­a del Amo, F. GarcĂ­a LĂłpez, M. GarcĂ­a Torres, B. Melián Batista, J. A. Moreno PĂ©rez, J. M. Moreno Vega
      Pages 311-351
  3. Applications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 377-377
    2. Global Order-Value Optimization by means of a Multistart Harmonic Oscillator Tunneling Strategy

      • R. Andreani, J. M. Martinez, M. Salvatierra, F. Yano
      Pages 379-404
  4. Back Matter

    Pages 415-427

About this book

Most books about global optimization describe the theory of the algorithms, whereas a given implementation’s quality never depends exclusively on the theoretical soundness of the algorithms that are implemented. The literature rarely discusses the tuning of algorithmic parameters, implementation tricks, software architectures, and the embedding of local solvers within global solvers. And yet, there are many good software implementations "out there” from which the entire community could learn something.

The scope of this book is moving a few steps toward the systematization of the path that goes from the invention to the implementation and testing of a global optimization algorithm. Some of the contributors to the book are famous and some are less well-known, but all are experts in the discipline of actually getting global optimization to work. Thus, the papers in this book address the following topics:

- Descriptions of new implementations of general-purpose or problem-specific global optimization algorithms

- New algorithms in global optimization (some with numerical results and a discussion of the implementation)

- Surveys discussing existing software packages.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Politecnico di Milano, Italia

    Leo Liberti

  • COPPE, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janiero, Brasil

    Nelson Maculan

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