Code	________
Year	2016
Instructor	Schoen (University of Florence)
Location	Florence
ECTS Credits	2

       

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Schedule

 

Day	Time	Room
13/6/2016	14:00–16:00	108 Santa Marta (Firenze)
14/06/2016	14:00–16:00	120 Santa Marta (Firenze)
15/06/2016	14:00–16:00	115 Santa Marta (Firenze)
16/06/2016	14:00–16:00	115 Santa Marta (Firenze)

       

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Abstract

 

This short course will cover a basic introduction to theory and algorithms for global optimization. It will be divided into the following sub-topics:

 

•  Basic definitions; problems which are NOT global optimization ones (a quick overview of convex optimization).

•  Classical and recent heuristic algorithms for large-scale global optimization.

•  Exact methods - Branch & Bound approaches for global optimization.

•  Heuristic methods for black box, expensive functions.