Ehsan Shams

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What are some of the good references that discusses why the penalty parameter is hard to find?

What are some of the well-written good references that discusses why finding the penalty parameter when solving a nonlinear constrained optimization problem is hard to find from the computational...

28 September 2020 741 2 View

What are the types of optimization problems that can't be tackled by meta-heuristic and heuristic algorithms?

Any decision-making problem when precisely formulated within the framework of mathematics is posed as an optimization problem. There are so many ways, in fact, I think infinitely many ways one can...

07 September 2020 9,590 14 View

How do some people compare the results of a heuristic algorithm with a deterministic one when both don't converge with the same probability?

Sometimes I find that there are people who compare the results of a deterministic optimization algorithm which converges with probability one with another heuristic algorithm which (doesn't)...

22 May 2020 2,448 0 View

How do I judge the goodness of my genetic algorithm code?

How to ensure that my ga code is good enough? I guess I should test it on various test functions that are different in structure, that's one obvious thing but, what about the number of chromosomes...

19 October 2019 604 3 View

Why some mathematicians are against meta-heuristic and heuristic algorithms?

I have found that some mathematicians disagree with meta-heuristic and heuristic algorithms. However, from a pragmatic point of view such algorithms often can find high-quality solutions (better...

20 August 2019 7,148 97 View