Recent advances in computational optimization: results of the Workshop on Computational Optimization (WCO 2015).

摘要

There exist many optimization techniques ranging from the more traditional techniques of numerical optimization to heuristic techniques such as evolutionary computation, ant optimization, and so on. In numerical analysis, the quality of different optimization techniques is usually gauged by testing them on benchmark problems. This is a reasonable idea: when we encounter a reasonable optimization problem for which the known methods do not work well, we add it to a list of benchmark problems and gauge future methods by how well they can solve this hardest-so-far problem.