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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In this paper we propose a new local quasi-Newton method to solve the equality constrained nonlinear programming problem. The pivotal feature ...

To make things worse, the problems are nonlinear and have mixed-integer decisions," explains Potschka. "Most approaches so far either drop the nonlinearity in favor of a relatively coarse piecewise ...