org.spaceroots.mantissa.optimization
Class MultiDirectional

java.lang.Object
  org.spaceroots.mantissa.optimization.DirectSearchOptimizer
      org.spaceroots.mantissa.optimization.MultiDirectional

public class MultiDirectional

extends DirectSearchOptimizer

This class implements the multi-directional direct search method.

Version:

$Id: MultiDirectional.java 1709 2006-12-03 21:16:50Z luc $

Author:

Luc Maisonobe

See Also:

NelderMead

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.spaceroots.mantissa.optimization.DirectSearchOptimizer

simplex

Constructor Summary

MultiDirectional()
Build a multi-directional optimizer with default coefficients.

MultiDirectional(double khi, double gamma)
Build a multi-directional optimizer with specified coefficients.

Method Summary

protected void

iterateSimplex() Compute the next simplex of the algorithm.

Methods inherited from class org.spaceroots.mantissa.optimization.DirectSearchOptimizer

evaluateCost, evaluateSimplex, getMinima, minimizes, minimizes, minimizes, minimizes, minimizes, minimizes, replaceWorstPoint, setMultiStart

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

MultiDirectional

public MultiDirectional()

Build a multi-directional optimizer with default coefficients.

The default values are 2.0 for khi and 0.5 for gamma.

MultiDirectional

public MultiDirectional(double khi,
                        double gamma)

Build a multi-directional optimizer with specified coefficients.

Parameters:

khi - expansion coefficient

gamma - contraction coefficient

Method Detail

iterateSimplex

protected void iterateSimplex()
                       throws CostException

Compute the next simplex of the algorithm.

Specified by:

iterateSimplex in class DirectSearchOptimizer

Throws:

CostException