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Research activity in 1999

1. Researchs on the validity of Tabu Search in PL and PLI have been prosecuted

2. Efficency and efficacy of a simmetric variant of the Symplex method are in course of evaluation

3. Analysis of branch-and-bound algorithms for concave optimization with linear constraintsproblemi

4. Theoretical and practical studies about the convergence and the convergence rate of Simulated Annealing algorithms for continuous global optimization

5. Molecular configuration problems through the minimization of potential energy functions: analysis of the structure of optimal solutions and search for efficient algorithms for the detection of optimal solutions.

1999 Publications

M.Locatelli, "Finiteness of conical algorithms with w-subdivisions", Mathematical Programming, 85(3), 593-616 (1999)

M.Locatelli, F.Schoen, "Random Linkage: a family of acceptance/rejection algorithms for global optimization", Mathematical Programming, 85(2), 379-396 (1999)

Papers accepted for publication in the year 1999

M.Locatelli, "Simulated annealing algorithms for continuous global optimization: convergence conditions", to appear in the Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, March 2000

M.Locatelli, U.Raber, "On the convergence of the simplicial branch-and-bound algorithm based on w-subdivisions", accepted for publication in the Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications

M.Locatelli, U.Raber, "A finiteness result for the simplicial branch-and-bound algorithm based on w-subdivisions", accepted for publication in the Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications

M.Locatelli, "Convergence of a simulated annealing algorithm for continuous global optimization", accepted for publication in the Journal of Global Optimization

Oral Presentations in Congresses and Conferences

• Invited talk by the University of Trier (Germany) - July


• IFORS 99, Peking (China) – 16/08-20/08


• Workshop on Global Optimization – Firenze (Italy) – 28/09-02/10 ( co-organizer)