© 1977 by British Computer Society
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A controlled random search procedure for global optimisation
Department of Engineering, The University, Leicester, UK
A new random search procedure is described which, while conceptually simple and easily programmed on a minicomputer, is effective in searching for global minima of a multimodal function, with or without constraints. The procedure is compared with a global optimisation algorithm devised by Becker and Lago and the results of trials, using a variety of test problems, are given.
Received February 1976.
* Department of Engineering, The University, Leicester LE1 7RH