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OPTIMIZATION
Edited by G.L. Nemhauser, A.H.G. Rinnooy Kan and M.J. Todd

CHAPTER 9
Global Optimization
A.H.G. Rinnooy Kan and G.T. Timmer

1. Introduction*

2. Partition and search

3. Approximation and search

4. Global decrease

5. Improvement of local minima

6. Enumeration of local minima

7. Concluding remarks

References

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