The MAP-i Doctoral Programme in Informatics, of the Universities of Minho, Aveiro and PortoOptimization is the research field that studies the design of algorithms for finding the best solutions to problems we may throw at them. While the whole domain is practically important, the present thesis will focus on the subfield of continuous black-box optimization, presenting a collection of novel, state-of-the-art algorithms for solving problems in that class. In this thesis, we introduce two novel general-purpose stochastic search algorithms for black box optimisation. Stochastic search algorithms aim at repeating the type of mutations that led to fittest search points in a population. We can model those mutations by a stochastic distrib...
In this paper, we propose a stochastic search algorithm for solving general optimization problems wi...
This thesis presents the main results of two articles published by the authors in the field of stoc...
This paper presents some simple technical conditions that guarantee the convergence of a general cla...
International audienceWe derive a stochastic search procedure for parameter optimization from two fi...
Stochastic search algorithms are black-box optimizer of an objective function. They have recently ga...
Stochastic search algorithms are general black-box optimizers. Due to their ease of use and their g...
Continuous optimization is never easy: the exact solution is always a luxury demand and ...
Many stochastic search algorithms are designed to optimize a fixed objective function to learn a tas...
Stochastic optimization (SO) is extensively studied in various fields, such as control engineering, ...
In this project a stochastic method for general purpose optimization and machine learning is describ...
Stochastic search algorithms have recently also gained a lot of attention in operations research, ma...
This thesis addresses aspects of stochastic algorithms for the solution of global optimisation probl...
Many stochastic search algorithms are designed to optimize a fixed objective function to learn a tas...
This paper presents some simple technical conditions that guarantee the convergence of a general cla...
Theoretical analyses of stochastic search algorithms, albeit few, have always existed since these al...
In this paper, we propose a stochastic search algorithm for solving general optimization problems wi...
This thesis presents the main results of two articles published by the authors in the field of stoc...
This paper presents some simple technical conditions that guarantee the convergence of a general cla...
International audienceWe derive a stochastic search procedure for parameter optimization from two fi...
Stochastic search algorithms are black-box optimizer of an objective function. They have recently ga...
Stochastic search algorithms are general black-box optimizers. Due to their ease of use and their g...
Continuous optimization is never easy: the exact solution is always a luxury demand and ...
Many stochastic search algorithms are designed to optimize a fixed objective function to learn a tas...
Stochastic optimization (SO) is extensively studied in various fields, such as control engineering, ...
In this project a stochastic method for general purpose optimization and machine learning is describ...
Stochastic search algorithms have recently also gained a lot of attention in operations research, ma...
This thesis addresses aspects of stochastic algorithms for the solution of global optimisation probl...
Many stochastic search algorithms are designed to optimize a fixed objective function to learn a tas...
This paper presents some simple technical conditions that guarantee the convergence of a general cla...
Theoretical analyses of stochastic search algorithms, albeit few, have always existed since these al...
In this paper, we propose a stochastic search algorithm for solving general optimization problems wi...
This thesis presents the main results of two articles published by the authors in the field of stoc...
This paper presents some simple technical conditions that guarantee the convergence of a general cla...