Zhou Tao, Bai Wen-Jie, Cheng Long-Jiu, Wang Bing-Hong
Nonlinear Science Center and Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei Anhui, 230026, China.
Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2005 Jul;72(1 Pt 2):016702. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.72.016702. Epub 2005 Jul 6.
We explore a general-purpose heuristic algorithm for finding high-quality solutions to continuous optimization problems. The method, called continuous extremal optimization (CEO), can be considered as an extension of extremal optimization and consists of two components, one which is responsible for global searching and the other which is responsible for local searching. The CEO's performance proves competitive with some more elaborate stochastic optimization procedures such as simulated annealing, genetic algorithms, and so on. We demonstrate it on a well-known continuous optimization problem: the Lennard-Jones cluster optimization problem.
