The pressing need of real-world problems for quick, simple, and implementable solutions coupled with a recently increased research productivity on improved and rigorously evaluated heuristic methods ...

This paper develops a new algorithm for solving the general nonlinear programming problem that melds the flexible simplex search of Nelder and Mead with various additional rules to take care of ...

Optimization technology is an important part of analytics. Optimization allows you to mathematically “narrow your choices the very best when there are virtually innumerable feasible options and ...