The software posted here is part of an ongoing project to develop C++ class-based implementations of direct search methods. The original software was developed by Adam Gurson as part of a 2000 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 Adam.

This work is based on simplex searches discussed in the paper For a full discussion of the implementation and the results of preliminary experimentation, see Simplex Search Behavior in Nonlinear Optimization.

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