MinFinder: Locating all the local minima of a function

Computer Physics Communications

Volumn 174, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 166-179

  Tsoulos, Ioannis G ^a   Lagaris, Isaac E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Clustering; Global optimization; Monte Carlo; Region of attraction; Stochastic methods

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; FUNCTIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CLUSTERING; REGION OF ATTRACTION; STOCHASTIC METHODS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 29144483940     PISSN: 00104655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2005.10.001     Document Type: Article

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