Global Optimization

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Joe Ajay
Joe Ajay on 18 Feb 2011
Hi, I've done a project in optimization using various optimization tools but my professor says I must submit the code for all these inbuild tools like GA,FMINCON,SIMULATED ANNEALING,PATTERN SEARCH where can i find these files? I searched my installed toolbox file in my installation file but I was confused which contains the algorithm coding.Please help me

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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 18 Feb 2011
A number of these are going to be written as built-in facilities, with no .m code available from Mathworks. You should consider looking in places like the Matlab File Exchange, or google, for the appropriate code. In some cases you might find C code to do the work, and you may have to write a MEX wrapper to interface between Matlab and the external code.
Be sure to test the resulting code -- different implementations of the same algorithm can end up with different results, whether due just to round-off error or other reasons. Or due perhaps to the code assuming row-order instead of column order.

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