Optimise: A Computational Environment for Teaching Optimization in Electrical Engineering

摘要

This paper presents Optimise, a computational optimization environment tool for education in electrical engineering. Optimise has been developed using software engineering process and object-oriented programming philosophy. This educational tool incorporates a set of deterministic and stochastic methods and also a set of computational intelligence techniques. Optimise offers a friendly interface and allows the students to practice the theory learned to verify and compare the features of the optimization methods. A general view of the software is presented describing its modules and class libraries. Some optimization problems are discussed to illustrate the flexibility and power of the Optimise as an educational tool.