This paper presents an overview of the research progress in deterministic global
optimization during the last decade (1998–2008). It covers the areas of twice continuously …

Introduction to Global Optimization Exploiting Space-Filling Curves provides an overview of
classical and new results pertaining to the usage of space-filling curves in global …

The first systematic overviews on global optimization appeared in 1975–1978 thanks to two
fundamental volumes titled Towards Global Optimization (Dixon & Szegö, 1975, 1978). At …

In the maritime industry, the stakeholders comprising the port authorities, shipping
companies, and port operators often compete and collaborate within an ecological system …

A chain wants to set up a single new facility in a planar market where similar facilities of
competitors, and possibly of its own chain, are already present. Fixed demand points split …

Abstract In Part I (Gounaris, CE, Floudas, CA: Tight convex understimators for C^ 2-
continuous functions: I: Univariate functions. J. Global Optim.(2008). doi: 10.007/s10898-008 …

In this article, gradient based descent line search scheme is proposed to solve interval
optimization problems under generalized Hukuhara differentiability. The innovation and …

Firstly, a brief survey of the existing works on comparing and ranking any two interval
numbers on the real line is presented, and then pointing out the drawbacks of these …

This paper introduces a new hybrid genetic algorithm to solve twice continuously
differentiable non-linear programming (NLP) problems. The algorithm combines the genetic …

Global optimization remains one of the great challenges in scientific computing. One
particular successful approach is the usage of tunneling functions to cross barriers and …