Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1706661 Applied Mathematical Modelling 2009 16 Pages PDF
Abstract

The filled function method is an effective approach to find a global minimizer for a general class of nonsmooth programming problems with a closed bounded domain. This paper gives a new definition for the filled function, which overcomes some drawbacks of the previous definition. It proposes a two-parameter filled function and a one-parameter filled function to improve the efficiency of numerical computation. Based on these analyses, two corresponding filled function algorithms are presented. They are global optimization methods which modify the objective function as a filled function, and which find a better local minimizer gradually by optimizing the filled function constructed on the minimizer previously found. Numerical results obtained indicate the efficiency and reliability of the proposed filled function methods.

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