Virginia Torczon: articles

Below are links to the expository articles listed. Be warned that the PostScript or PDF version here of the article may differ slightly from the published version as last minute changes are sometimes made to meet format requirements. The published version should be considered definitive.


Why Pattern Search Works [compressed PostScript file]
Copyright © 1998 Robert Michael Lewis, Virginia Torczon, and Michael W. Trosset

co-authors: Robert Michael Lewis and Michael W. Trosset

Appears in OPTIMA, the Mathematical Programming Society (MPS) Newsletter, No. 59 [PDF file], October 1998, pp. 1-7.


Pattern Search Methods for Nonlinear Optimization [compressed PostScript file] [PDF file]
Copyright © 1995 Virginia Torczon

Appears in SIAG/OPT Views-and-News, A Forum for the SIAM Activity Group on Optimization, No. 6, Spring 1995, pp. 7-11.

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