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Wilke, Daniel Nicolas
(University of Pretoria, 2007-02-01)
Increasing prominence is given to the role of optimization in engineering. The global optimization problem is in particular frequently studied, since this difficult optimization problem is in general intractable. As a ...
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Wilke, Daniel Nicolas
(University of Pretoria, 2010)
This study proposes novel optimization methodologies for the optimization of problems that reveal non-physical step discontinuities. More specifically, it is proposed to use gradient-only techniques that do not use any ...