Stochastic Methods for Practical Global Optimization

Journal of Global Optimization

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 433-444

  Zabinsky, Zelda B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive search; Global optimization; Multi disciplinary optimization; Simulated annealing

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

ADAPTIVE SEARCH; ENGINEERING DESIGN; LOCAL OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY OPTIMIZATION;

GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 0000429265     PISSN: 09255001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008350230239     Document Type: Article

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