A new filled function applied to global optimization

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 61-80

  Liu, Xian ^a   Xu, Wilson ^b  

^a Univ of Arkansas at Little Rock ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Filled function method; Global optimization; Mathematical programming; Minimization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION;

MULTI-MODAL FUNCTIONS;

ELECTRIC MACHINERY;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 0141976793     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0548(02)00154-5     Document Type: Article

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