Description

Implementation of a function that searches for global minimum of a very complex non-linear objective function with a very large number of optima.

Details

Author(s)

Yang Xiang, Sylvain Gubian, Brian Suomela, Julia Hoeng, PMP SA.
Maintainer: DL.RSupport@pmi.com

References

Xiang Y, Gubian S, Suomela B, Hoeng (2012). "Generalized Simulated Annealing for Efficient Global Optimization: the GenSA Package for R". The R Journal, Forthcoming. https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2013/RJ-2013-002/index.html.

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