Modified T-F Function Method for Finding Global Minimizer on Unconstrained Optimization

Abstract EN

This paper indicates that the filled function which appeared in one of the papers by Y.

L.

Shang et al.

(2007) is also a tunneling function; that is, we prove that under some general assumptions this function has the characters of both tunneling function and filled function.

A solution algorithm based on this T-F function is given and numerical tests from test functions show that our T-F function method is very effective in finding better minima.