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Gilles commented on MATH-1394:
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Sorry I somehow missed this report.
As it is, the code cannot be imported into the "Commons Math" code base
(because of divergence on what constitutes _free_ in the views of Apache vs
GNU).
I see that you are one of the authors of the referred sources.
That functionality will be welcome in "Commons Math". Are you willing to port
it (rebased on the current "master" branch) and provide it under ASL v2?
> Implementation of DIRECT global optimizer
> -----------------------------------------
>
> Key: MATH-1394
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MATH-1394
> Project: Commons Math
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Affects Versions: 3.5, 3.6
> Reporter: Burton Patkau
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: 4.X
>
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> An open source implementation of the DIRECT global optimizer, described by
> Jones, Perttunen and Stuckmann, implementing
> math3.optim.nonlinear.scalar.MultivariateOptimizer, is available as
> DIRECTOptimizer.java at
> https://github.com/edwardkort/WWIDesigner/tree/optimizer/WWIDesigner/src/main/com/wwidesigner/math.
> There are also three variants of the algorithm on that page:
> DIRECT_L_Optimizer implements DIRECT-L by Gablonsky and Kelley,
> DIRECT1Optimizer changes which sides are chosen for dividing, and
> DIRECTCOptimizer adds alternative ways to select potentially-optimal
> hyperrectangles.
> DIRECT is not as fast as BOBYQA, but is better at finding a global minimum in
> a field of many local minima.
> JUnit tests for all of these, using standard optimizer test functions, are
> available in
> https://github.com/edwardkort/WWIDesigner/tree/optimizer/WWIDesigner/src/test/com/wwidesigner/math.
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