Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Powell

Powell’s method, the short name of the conjugate direction method proposed by Powell, is a kind of direct search method and has been applied to many engineering optimization problems for it was known as one of the most efficient method in unconstrained nonlinear optimizations. This technique is a modified or deflected gradient approach.

http://www.iahr.org/e-library/beijing_proceedings/Theme_A/COMPARISON%20OF%20OPTIMIZATION%20ALGORITHMS.html

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