Elizabeth Dolan and Virginia Torczon
The software posted here is part of an ongoing project to develop C++ class-based implementations of pattern search methods. The original software was developed by Elizabeth Dolan as part of a 1999 Honors Thesis in Computer Science under the direction of Virginia Torczon.
Christopher Siefert has implemented and provided useful C++ classes for vector and matrix operations, which have since been incorporated by Liz.
This work is based on the abstraction of pattern search found in the paper On the convergence of pattern search algorithms. For a full discussion of the implementation and the results of preliminary experimentation, see Pattern Search Behavior in Nonlinear Optimization.
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PatternSearch/ . . . | [PatternSearch.tar.gz] |
Pattern Search . . . | [PatternSearch.h] [PatternSearch.cc] |
Vector & Matrix . . . | [vec.h] [cmat.h] [subscrpt.h] |
Inherited Classes (Actual Searches) for Unconstrained Optimization
Minimal Positive Basis Search (NLess). . . | [NLessSearch.h] [NLessSearch.cc] |
Objective Function and Initial Values Files . . . | [objective.h] [objective.cc] |
Main Program File . . . | [main.cc] |