Overlapping Branch and Bound

Release: 0.6b

Date: 18 September, 2013

Author: J. M. Fowkes

oBB is an algorithm for the parallel global optimization of functions with Lipchitz continuous gradient or Hessian.

Acknowledgements

This work was supported by EPSRC grants EP/I028854/1 (PI: Dr Coralia Cartis) and NAIS EP/G036136/1. We are also grateful to Prof Nick Gould for his help and advice during development and Mehdi Towhidi for providing us with his PyQuadProg code.