Randomly generated nonlinear programming test problems

Author(s):  
K. Schittkowski
2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 451-469
Author(s):  
David R. Penas ◽  
Marcos Raydan

Solving nonlinear programming problems usually involve difficulties to obtain a starting point that produces convergence to a local feasible solution, for which the objective function value is sufficiently good. A novel approach is proposed, combining metaheuristic techniques with modern deterministic optimization schemes, with the aim to solve a sequence of penalized related problems to generate convenient starting points. The metaheuristic ideas are used to choose the penalty parameters associated with the constraints, and for each set of penalty parameters a deterministic scheme is used to evaluate a properly chosen metaheuristic merit function. Based on this starting-point approach, we describe two different strategies for solving the nonlinear programming problem. We illustrate the properties of the combined schemes on three nonlinear programming benchmark-test problems, and also on the well-known and hard-to-solve disk-packing problem, that possesses a huge amount of local-nonglobal solutions, obtaining encouraging results both in terms of optimality and feasibility.


1977 ◽  
Vol 99 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. B. Schuldt ◽  
G. A. Gabriele ◽  
R. R. Root ◽  
E. Sandgren ◽  
K. M. Ragsdell

This paper presents Schuldt’s Method of Multipliers for nonlinear programming problems. The basics of this new exterior penalty function method are discussed with emphasis upon the ease of implementation. The merit of the technique for medium to large non-linear programming problems is evaluated, and demonstrated using the Eason and Fenton test problems.


1965 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 113 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. B. Rosen ◽  
S. Suzuki

Author(s):  
Jin-xian Ma ◽  
Shi-huai Xie ◽  
Yong Chen

Abstract In recent years, cluster analysis has played an increasingly important role in statistical pattern recognition. Hoeltzel and Chieng have shown an example on cognitive selection of nonlinear programming algorithms in a mechanical design expert system. In this paper, an improved dynamic clustering of 3000 samples came from a comparative performance evaluation of six typical nonlinear programming softwares with randomly generated test problems has been made. Explanations resulting from the cluster analysis have been used to build rules to form the knowledge base of an optimization expert system.


1966 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-116
Author(s):  
M. J. Box

2005 ◽  
Vol 2005 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ozgur Yeniay

Constrained nonlinear programming problems often arise in many engineering applications. The most well-known optimization methods for solving these problems are sequential quadratic programming methods and generalized reduced gradient methods. This study compares the performance of these methods with the genetic algorithms which gained popularity in recent years due to advantages in speed and robustness. We present a comparative study that is performed on fifteen test problems selected from the literature.


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