A Guide to Search Procedures for Unconstrained Function Minimization Problems,

Abstract

The report presents a statement and brief discussion of a number of numerical search procedures that have been proposed for finding the minimum of a nonlinear function of n variables. Both direct search and gradient search methods are presented. (Modified author abstract)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 21, 1973
Accession Number
AD0781782

Entities

People

  • H. W. Sorenson

Organizations

  • The Aerospace Corporation

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Operations Research