Integer programming, a cornerstone of combinatorial optimisation, focuses on the selection of discrete decision variables to solve complex real‐world problems such as scheduling, network design and ...

Mathematical programming discriminant analysis models must be normalised to prevent the generation of discriminant functions in which the variable coefficients and the constant term are zero. This ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The Filled Function Method is a class of effective algorithms for continuous global optimization. In this paper, a new filled function method ...

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