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Local optimum

Known as: Local optima, Local optimality, Locally optimal 
In applied mathematics and computer science, a local optimum of an optimization problem is a solution that is optimal (either maximal or minimal… 
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Mathematical optimization

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Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
A Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm with Differential Evolution
Differential evolution (DE) is a simple evolutionary algorithm that has shown superior performance in the global continuous… 
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
LOQO User’s Manual – Version 4.05
LOQO is a system for solving smooth constrained optimization problems. The problems can be linear or nonlinear, convex or… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Modeling of optical absorption in conjugated polymer/fullerene bulk-heterojunction plastic solar cells
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Hybridization of the multi-objective evolutionary algorithms and the gradient-based algorithms
It is known from single-objective optimization that hybrid variants of local search algorithms and evolutionary algorithms can… 
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
An Improved Ant Colony Optimisation Algorithm for the 2D HP Protein Folding Problem
The prediction of a protein's structure from its amino-acid sequence is one of the most important problems in computational… 
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
A study on non-random mating and varying population size in genetic algorithms using a royal road function
We present a study on the effects of non-random mating and varying population size in genetic algorithm (GA) performance. We… 
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Capturing outline of fonts using genetic algorithm and splines
In order to obtain a good spline model from large measurement data, we frequently have to deal with knots as variables, which… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
A locally optimal handoff algorithm for cellular communications
The design of handoff algorithms for cellular communication systems based on mobile signal strength measurements is considered… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
The role of linear semi-infinite programming in signal-adapted QMF bank design
We consider the problem of designing a perfect-reconstruction, FIR, quadrature-mirror filter (QMF) bank (H, G) adapted to input… 
Review
1984
Review
1984
Stochastic methods for global optimization
SYNOPTIC ABSTRACTThe most efficient methods for finding the global minimum of an objective function (not necessarily convex) are… 
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