1. A Filled Function Approach for Nonsmooth Constrained Global Optimization.
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Weixiang Wang, Youlin Shang, and Ying Zhang
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MATHEMATICAL optimization ,ALGORITHMS ,MATHEMATICS ,MATHEMATICAL analysis ,NUMERICAL analysis - Abstract
A novel filled function is given in this paper to find a global minima for a nonsmooth constrained optimization problem. First, a modified concept of the filled function for nonsmooth constrained global optimization is introduced, and a filled function, which makes use of the idea of the filled function for unconstrained optimization and penalty function for constrained optimization, is proposed. Then, a solution algorithm based on the proposed filled function is developed. At last, some preliminary numerical results are reported. The results show that the proposed approach is promising. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
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