[HTML][HTML] Two decades of blackbox optimization applications

S Alarie, C Audet, AE Gheribi, M Kokkolaras… - EURO Journal on …, 2021 - Elsevier
This article reviews blackbox optimization applications of direct search optimization methods
over the past twenty years. Emphasis is placed on the Mesh Adaptive Direct Search (Mads) …

Global optimization advances in mixed-integer nonlinear programming, MINLP, and constrained derivative-free optimization, CDFO

F Boukouvala, R Misener, CA Floudas - European Journal of Operational …, 2016 - Elsevier
This manuscript reviews recent advances in deterministic global optimization for Mixed-
Integer Nonlinear Programming (MINLP), as well as Constrained Derivative-Free …

[图书][B] Introduction: tools and challenges in derivative-free and blackbox optimization

C Audet, W Hare, C Audet, W Hare - 2017 - Springer
In this introductory chapter, we present a high-level description of optimization, blackbox
optimization, and derivative-free optimization. We introduce some basic optimization …

[HTML][HTML] Bayesian optimization for materials design with mixed quantitative and qualitative variables

Y Zhang, DW Apley, W Chen - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Although Bayesian Optimization (BO) has been employed for accelerating materials
design in computational materials engineering, existing works are restricted to problems …

Algorithm 909: NOMAD: Nonlinear optimization with the MADS algorithm

S Le Digabel - ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (TOMS), 2011 - dl.acm.org
NOMAD is software that implements the Mesh Adaptive Direct Search (MADS) algorithm for
blackbox optimization under general nonlinear constraints. Blackbox optimization is about …

Optimization by direct search: New perspectives on some classical and modern methods

TG Kolda, RM Lewis, V Torczon - SIAM review, 2003 - SIAM
Direct search methods are best known as unconstrained optimization techniques that do not
explicitly use derivatives. Direct search methods were formally proposed and widely applied …

Analysis of generalized pattern searches

C Audet, JE Dennis Jr - SIAM Journal on optimization, 2002 - SIAM
This paper contains a new convergence analysis for the Lewis and Torczon generalized
pattern search (GPS) class of methods for unconstrained and linearly constrained …

Ant colony optimization for mixed-variable optimization problems

T Liao, K Socha, MAM de Oca… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we introduce ACO MV: an ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithm that
extends the ACO R algorithm for continuous optimization to tackle mixed-variable …

System modelling and online optimal management of microgrid using mesh adaptive direct search

FA Mohamed, HN Koivo - International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy …, 2010 - Elsevier
This paper presents a generalized formulation to determine the optimal operating strategy
and cost optimization scheme for a MicroGrid. Prior to the optimization of the MicroGrid itself …

Extended ant colony optimization for non-convex mixed integer nonlinear programming

M Schlüter, JA Egea, JR Banga - Computers & Operations Research, 2009 - Elsevier
Two novel extensions for the well known ant colony optimization (ACO) framework are
introduced here, which allow the solution of mixed integer nonlinear programs (MINLPs) …