(1) Department of Mathematics, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, 4072, Australia;(2) Optimata Ltd., 11 Tuval St., Ramat Gan, 52522, Israel;(3) Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion, Haifa, Israel
Abstract:
In recent years, the cross-entropy method has been successfully applied to a wide range of discrete optimization tasks. In this paper we consider the cross-entropy method in the context of continuous optimization. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the cross-entropy method for solving difficult continuous multi-extremal optimization problems, including those with non-linear constraints.