Subject: Benchmark Functions for Minimization Algorithms

From: Nicholas Harkiolakis <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 09:01:30 -0700

Greetings all,
 
I'm developing a new method for locating Global and Local minima
and interested to compare it with other methods in a mathematical
sense initialy. I would appreciate any recomentations - functions
(single and multi variable) with well defined global and local minima,
that will be widely accepted as benchmark functions for messuring
the efficiency of an algorithm. Also I would wellcome any relevant
data - refferences anyone wishes to share or recomend.
My goal is to apply the algorithm for the refinement of protein models
using the AMBER forcefield.
 
Thanks in advance,
 
Nick Harkiolakis
e-mail : [email-masked]