A Fast Boundary Tracking Algorithm for Constrained Nonlinear Mathematical Programming Problems.

Abstract

A fast search algorithm for the solution of nonlinear mathematical programming optimization problems is presented in this report. The procedure combines a boundary tracking (BT) strategy with the feasible direction finding method of zoutendijk. This algorithm was compared with twenty other codes representing most of the popular numerical optimization methods on ten test problems. The new code proved superior to all others in overall generality and efficiency.

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Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1977
Accession Number
ADA039094

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  • Jacob Moradi
  • Michael Pappas

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  • New Jersey Institute of Technology

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