MinFinder: locating all the local minima of a function

DOI10.1016/J.CPC.2005.10.001MaRDI QIDQ709933zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ioannis G. Tsoulos, Isaac E. Lagaris

Publication date 18 October 2010

Published in Computer Physics Communications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2005.10.001

zbMATH Keywords

clusteringMonte Carloglobal optimizationregion of attractionstochastic methods\texttt{MinFinder}

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stochastic programming (90C15) Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to operations research and mathematical programming (90-04)

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• Non-monotone derivative-free algorithm for solving optimization models with linear constraints: extensions for solving nonlinearly constrained models via exact penalty methods
• A stochastic optimization algorithm for analyzing planar central and balanced configurations in the \(n\)-body problem
• MinFinder
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• Towards ``Ideal multistart. A stochastic approach for locating the minima of a continuous function inside a bounded domain
• Approximating the objective function's gradient using perceptrons for constrained minimization with application in drag reduction
• MinFinder v2.0: an improved version of minfinder
• On locating all roots of systems of nonlinear equations inside bounded domain using global optimization methods

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Uses Software

• simannf90
• Algorithm 829

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