Substitute derivatives in unconstrained optimization: A comparison of finite difference and response surface approximations

DOI10.1016/0305-0548(88)90018-4zbMATH Open0643.90078OpenAlexW1980136879MaRDI QIDQ1102201FDOQ1102201

Jeffrey L. Ringuest

Publication date: 1988

Published in: Computers \& Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0305-0548(88)90018-4

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zbMATH Keywords

conjugate gradient algorithmfinite difference approximationsteepest descent algorithmexperimental designsquasi-Newton algorithmaccuracy of unconstrained gradient searchfirst- order response surfacessubstitute derivatives

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical mathematical programming methods (65K05) Nonlinear programming (90C30) Numerical methods based on nonlinear programming (49M37)

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