Jsun Yui Wong
The following computer program seeks to solve test problem 7 in Deb [7, p. 331]. This problem has five continuous variables and three equality constraints.
0 DEFDBL A-Z
1 DEFINT I,J,K
2 DIM B(99),N(99),A(2002),H(99),L(99),U(99),X(2002),D(111),P(111),PS(33),J(99),AA(99),HR(32),HHR(32),LHS(44),PLHS(44),LB(22),UB(22),PX(44),J44(44)
4 REM DIM PE(35,35)
5 REM DIM SD(35,35)
88 FOR JJJJ=-32000 TO 32000
89 RANDOMIZE JJJJ
90 M=-3D+30
101 FOR J44=1 TO 5
103 A(J44)=-2.3 + RND*4.6
106 NEXT J44
113 REM A(4)=20+FIX(RND*41)
126 IMAR=10+FIX(RND*1500)
128 FOR I=1 TO IMAR
129 FOR KKQQ=1 TO 5
130 X(KKQQ)=A(KKQQ)
131 NEXT KKQQ
139 FOR IPP=1 TO FIX(1+RND*3)
140 B=1+FIX(RND*5)
144 IF JJJJ<-31995 THEN 154 ELSE 164
145 REM IF B=3 OR B=4 GOTO 164
147 REM IF B=1 GOTO 150 ELSE IF B=2 GOTO 154
150 IF RND<.5 THEN X(1)=A(1)-FIX(1+RND*2)*.0625 ELSE X(1)=A(1)+FIX(1+RND*2)*.0625
152 GOTO 179
154 IF RND<.5 THEN X(2)=A(2)-FIX(1+RND*2)*.0625 ELSE X(2)=A(2)+FIX(1+RND*2)*.0625
156 GOTO 179
162 IF RND<.5 THEN X(B)=A(B)-FIX(1+RND*2) ELSE X(B)=A(B)+FIX(1+RND*2)
163 GOTO 179
164 FOR J44=1 TO 5
165 IF ABS(X(J44))>32000 THEN 1670
166 NEXT J44
176 IF RND<.9 THEN R=(1-RND*2)*A(B) ELSE IF RND<.5 THEN R=(1-RND*2)*(A(B) -.1) ELSE R=(1-RND*2)*(A(B) +.1)
177 IF RND<.1 THEN X(B)=CINT(A(B))-FIX(1+RND*3) ELSE IF RND<.1 THEN X(B)=CINT(A(B))+FIX(1+RND*3) ELSE X(B)=A(B)+(RND^(RND*10) )*R
178 REM IF RND<.1 THEN X(B)=INT(A(B))-FIX(1+RND*3) ELSE IF RND<.1 THEN X(B)=INT(A(B))+FIX(1+RND*3) ELSE X(B)=A(B)+(RND^(RND*10) )*R
179 NEXT IPP
192 IF ( -1 -X(1)^3 ) <.00001 THEN 1670
194 X(2)= ( -1 -X(1)^3 ) ^.3333333333333333#
195 REM X(6)=X(2) -.00954*X(3)
197 IF ABS (5*X(4)) <.00001 THEN 1670
199 X(5)= ( X(2)*X(3) ) / (5*X(4))
202 X(6)= -10+X(1)^2+X(2)^2+X(3)^2+X(4)^2+X(5)^2
211 FOR J44=1 TO 2
212 IF X(J44)<-2.3 THEN 1670
215 IF X(J44)>2.3 THEN 1670
216 NEXT J44
217 FOR J44=3 TO 5
218 IF X(J44)<-3.2 THEN 1670
219 IF X(J44)>3.2 THEN 1670
220 NEXT J44
221 FOR J44=6 TO 6
222 IF ABS( X(J44) ) >0 THEN P(J44)=-9000000!*ABS(X(J44) ) ELSE P(J44)=0
223 NEXT J44
225 PTOTAL=P(6)
567 IF (X(1)*X(2)*X(3) *X(4)*X(5) ) >80 THEN 1670
569 P= -EXP(X(1)*X(2)*X(3) *X(4)*X(5) ) +PTOTAL
1111 IF P<=M THEN 1670
1452 M=P
1454 FOR KLX=1 TO 6
1455 A(KLX)=X(KLX)
1456 NEXT KLX
1557 GOTO 128
1670 NEXT I
1889 IF M<-.0544 THEN 1999
1904 PRINT A(1),A(2),A(3)
1907 PRINT A(4),A(5),A(6)
1989 PRINT M,JJJJ
1999 NEXT JJJJ
This BASIC computer program was run via basica/D of Microsoft's GW-BASIC 3.11 interpreter for DOS. The complete output through JJJJ=-29733 is shown below. What follows is a hand copy from the computer-monitor screen; below there is no rounding by hand.
-1.71190810658521 1.589642492833478 -1.836945333049172
-.7652926124686905 .763129373222997 2.456368441983159D-15
-5.396309331019588D-02 -31805
-1.689683861167147 1.56378283341442 1.877220815462657
.7479667056878516 .784945549962439 5.051514762044462D-15
-5.435684077803866D-02 -31212
-1.710483798634002 1.587990318229139 -1.83847905458375
.7992999171951749 -.7305110074803548 2.250699626671349D-13
-5.416114633260474D-02 -29733
On a personal computer with a Pentium Dual-Core CPU E5200 @2.50GHz, 2.50 GHz, 960 MB of RAM, and the IBM basica/D interpreter, version GW BASIC 3.11, the wall-clock time for obtaining the output shown above was 25 minutes.
Acknowledgment
I would like to acknowledge the encouragement of Roberta Clark and Tom Clark.
References
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[50] Jsun Yui Wong (2009, December 18). A Heuristic Nonlinear Integer Solver Applied to a Problem of Assignment of Facilities to Locations. Retrieved from http://wongsnewnewblog.blogspot.ca/2009/12/
[51] Jsun Yui Wong (2011, May 15). The Domino Method Applied to Solving a Nonlinear System of Ten Equations of a Model of Propane-in-Air Combustion, Fourth Edition. Retrieved from http://computationalresultsfromcomputerprograms.wordpress.com/2011/05/15/
[52] Jsun Yui Wong (2011, May 5). The Domino Method Applied to Solving a Nonlinear System of Five Equations, Third Edition. Retrieved from http://computationalresultsfromcomputerprograms.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/
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The following computer program seeks to solve test problem 7 in Deb [7, p. 331]. This problem has five continuous variables and three equality constraints.
0 DEFDBL A-Z
1 DEFINT I,J,K
2 DIM B(99),N(99),A(2002),H(99),L(99),U(99),X(2002),D(111),P(111),PS(33),J(99),AA(99),HR(32),HHR(32),LHS(44),PLHS(44),LB(22),UB(22),PX(44),J44(44)
4 REM DIM PE(35,35)
5 REM DIM SD(35,35)
88 FOR JJJJ=-32000 TO 32000
89 RANDOMIZE JJJJ
90 M=-3D+30
101 FOR J44=1 TO 5
103 A(J44)=-2.3 + RND*4.6
106 NEXT J44
113 REM A(4)=20+FIX(RND*41)
126 IMAR=10+FIX(RND*1500)
128 FOR I=1 TO IMAR
129 FOR KKQQ=1 TO 5
130 X(KKQQ)=A(KKQQ)
131 NEXT KKQQ
139 FOR IPP=1 TO FIX(1+RND*3)
140 B=1+FIX(RND*5)
144 IF JJJJ<-31995 THEN 154 ELSE 164
145 REM IF B=3 OR B=4 GOTO 164
147 REM IF B=1 GOTO 150 ELSE IF B=2 GOTO 154
150 IF RND<.5 THEN X(1)=A(1)-FIX(1+RND*2)*.0625 ELSE X(1)=A(1)+FIX(1+RND*2)*.0625
152 GOTO 179
154 IF RND<.5 THEN X(2)=A(2)-FIX(1+RND*2)*.0625 ELSE X(2)=A(2)+FIX(1+RND*2)*.0625
156 GOTO 179
162 IF RND<.5 THEN X(B)=A(B)-FIX(1+RND*2) ELSE X(B)=A(B)+FIX(1+RND*2)
163 GOTO 179
164 FOR J44=1 TO 5
165 IF ABS(X(J44))>32000 THEN 1670
166 NEXT J44
176 IF RND<.9 THEN R=(1-RND*2)*A(B) ELSE IF RND<.5 THEN R=(1-RND*2)*(A(B) -.1) ELSE R=(1-RND*2)*(A(B) +.1)
177 IF RND<.1 THEN X(B)=CINT(A(B))-FIX(1+RND*3) ELSE IF RND<.1 THEN X(B)=CINT(A(B))+FIX(1+RND*3) ELSE X(B)=A(B)+(RND^(RND*10) )*R
178 REM IF RND<.1 THEN X(B)=INT(A(B))-FIX(1+RND*3) ELSE IF RND<.1 THEN X(B)=INT(A(B))+FIX(1+RND*3) ELSE X(B)=A(B)+(RND^(RND*10) )*R
179 NEXT IPP
192 IF ( -1 -X(1)^3 ) <.00001 THEN 1670
194 X(2)= ( -1 -X(1)^3 ) ^.3333333333333333#
195 REM X(6)=X(2) -.00954*X(3)
197 IF ABS (5*X(4)) <.00001 THEN 1670
199 X(5)= ( X(2)*X(3) ) / (5*X(4))
202 X(6)= -10+X(1)^2+X(2)^2+X(3)^2+X(4)^2+X(5)^2
211 FOR J44=1 TO 2
212 IF X(J44)<-2.3 THEN 1670
215 IF X(J44)>2.3 THEN 1670
216 NEXT J44
217 FOR J44=3 TO 5
218 IF X(J44)<-3.2 THEN 1670
219 IF X(J44)>3.2 THEN 1670
220 NEXT J44
221 FOR J44=6 TO 6
222 IF ABS( X(J44) ) >0 THEN P(J44)=-9000000!*ABS(X(J44) ) ELSE P(J44)=0
223 NEXT J44
225 PTOTAL=P(6)
567 IF (X(1)*X(2)*X(3) *X(4)*X(5) ) >80 THEN 1670
569 P= -EXP(X(1)*X(2)*X(3) *X(4)*X(5) ) +PTOTAL
1111 IF P<=M THEN 1670
1452 M=P
1454 FOR KLX=1 TO 6
1455 A(KLX)=X(KLX)
1456 NEXT KLX
1557 GOTO 128
1670 NEXT I
1889 IF M<-.0544 THEN 1999
1904 PRINT A(1),A(2),A(3)
1907 PRINT A(4),A(5),A(6)
1989 PRINT M,JJJJ
1999 NEXT JJJJ
This BASIC computer program was run via basica/D of Microsoft's GW-BASIC 3.11 interpreter for DOS. The complete output through JJJJ=-29733 is shown below. What follows is a hand copy from the computer-monitor screen; below there is no rounding by hand.
-1.71190810658521 1.589642492833478 -1.836945333049172
-.7652926124686905 .763129373222997 2.456368441983159D-15
-5.396309331019588D-02 -31805
-1.689683861167147 1.56378283341442 1.877220815462657
.7479667056878516 .784945549962439 5.051514762044462D-15
-5.435684077803866D-02 -31212
-1.710483798634002 1.587990318229139 -1.83847905458375
.7992999171951749 -.7305110074803548 2.250699626671349D-13
-5.416114633260474D-02 -29733
On a personal computer with a Pentium Dual-Core CPU E5200 @2.50GHz, 2.50 GHz, 960 MB of RAM, and the IBM basica/D interpreter, version GW BASIC 3.11, the wall-clock time for obtaining the output shown above was 25 minutes.
Acknowledgment
I would like to acknowledge the encouragement of Roberta Clark and Tom Clark.
References
[1] Dana H. Ballard, C. O Jelinek, R. Schinzinger (1974), An Algorithm for the Solution of Constrained Generalised Polynomial Programming Problems. The Computer Journal, Volume 17, Number 3, pp. 261-266.
[2] M. C. Bartholomew-Biggs, A Numerical Comparison between Two Approaches to the Nonlinear Programming Problem, in Towards Global Optimization 2, edited by L. C. W. Dixon, G. P. Szego, pp. 293-312. North-Holland Publishing Company 1978.
[3] J. Bracken, G. P. McCormick, Selected Applications of Nonlinear Programming. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1968.
[4] Richard L. Burden, J. Douglas Faires, Numerical Analysis, Ninth Edition. Brooks/Cole 2011.
[5] T. Y. Chen, H. C. Chen (2009): Mixed-Discrete Structural Optimization Using a Rank-Niche Evolution Strategy, Engineering Optimization, 41:1, 39-58.
[6] George B. Dantzig, Discrete-Variable Extremum Problems. Operations Research, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Apr., 1957), pp. 266-277.
[7] Kalyanmoy Deb (2000), An Efficient Constraint Handling Method for Genetic Algorithms. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 186 (2000), 311-338.
[8] R. J. Duffin, E. L. Peterson, C. Zener, Geometric Programming Theory and Applications. John Wiley and Sons, 1967.
[9] M. A. Duran, I. E. Grossmann, An Outer-Approximation Algorithm for a Class of Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programs. Mathematical Programming, Vol. 36:307-339, 1986.
[10] F. Erbatur, O. Hasancebi, I. Tutuncu, H. Kilic (2000) Optimal Design of Planar and Spcae Structures with Genetic Algorithms. Computers and Structures, 75 (2), 209-224.
[11] C. A. Floudas, A. R. Ciric (1989), Strategies for Overcoming Uncertainties in Heat Exchanger Network Synthesis. Computers and Chemical Engineering, Vol 13, No. 10, pp. 1133-1152, 1989.
[12] C. A. Floudas, A. Aggarwal, A. R. Ciric (1989), Global Optimum Search for Nonconvex NLP and MINLP Problems. Computers and Chemical Engineering, Vol 13, No. 10, pp. 1117-1132, 1989.
[13] C. A. Floudas, P. M. Pardalos, A Collection of Test Problems for Constrained Global Optimization Algorithms. Springer-Verlag, 1990.
[14] Christodoulos A. Floudas, Nonlinear and Mixed-Integer Optimization. Oxford University Press, 1995.
[15] C. A. Floudas, Deterministic Global Optimization. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000.
[16] S. Gholizadeh, A. Barzegar (2012), Shape Optimization of Structures for Frequency Constraints by Sequential Harmony Search Algorithm, Engineering Optimization, DOI:10.1080/0305215X.2012.704028.
[17] Amos Gilat and Vish Subramaniam, Numerical Methods for Engineers and Scientists: An Introduction with Applications Using MATLAB. John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 2008.
[18] Donald Greenspan, Vincenzo Casulli, Numerical Analysis for Applied Mathematics, Science, and Enginerring. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1988.
[19] Willi Hock, Klaus Schittkowski, Test Examples for Nonlinear Programming Codes. Springer-Verlag 1981.
[20] Majid Jaberipour, Esmaile Khorram (2010), Two Improved Hormony Search Algorithms for Solving Engineering Optimization Problems. Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation 15 (2010) 3316-3331.
[21] M. Jaberipour, E. Khorram (2010), Solving the Sum-of-Ratios Problems by a Harmony Search Algorithm. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics 234 (2010) 733-742.
[22] M. Jaberipour, E. Khorram (2011), A New Harmony Search Algorithm for Solving Mixed Discrete Engineering Optimization Problems. Engineering Optimization, 05/2011, 43:507-523.
[23] Michael Junger, Thomas M. Liebling, Dennis Naddef, George L. Nemhauser, William R. Pulleybank, Gerhart Reinelt, Giovanni Rinaldi, Lawrence A. Wolsey--Editors, 50 Years of Integer Programming 1958-2008. Berlin: Springer, 2010.
[24] B. K. Kannen , S. N. Kramer (1994), An Augmented Lagrange Multiplier Based Method for Mixed Integer Discrete Continuous Optimization and its Applications to Mechanical Design. Journal of Mechanical Design, 116, pp. 405-411.
[25] R. Baker Kearfott, Some Tests of Generalized Bisection. ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, Vol.13, No. 3, September 1987, pages 197-220.
[26] Esmaile Khorram, Majid Jaberipour, Harmony Search Algorithm for Solving Combined Heat and Power Economic Dispatch Problems. Energy Conversion and Management 52 (2011) 1550-1554.
[27] G. R. Kocis, I. E. Grossmann, Relaxation Strategy for the Structural Optimization of Process Flow Sheets. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 26 (9):1869 (1987).
[28} Sonia Krzyworzcka, Extension of the Lanczos and CGS Methods to Systems of Nonlinear Equations. Journal of Computational and Aplied Mathematics 69 (1996) 181-190.
[29] A. H. Land, A. G. Doig, An Automatic Method of Solving Discrete Programming Problems. Econometrica, Vol. 28, No. 3 (Jul., 1960), pp. 497-520.
[30] E. L. Lawler, M. D. Bell, A Method for Solving Discrete Optimization Problems. Operations Research, Vol. 14, No. 6 (Nov.-Dec., 1966), pp. 1098-1112.
[31] K. S. Lee, Z. W. Geem (2005), A New Meta-Heuristic Algorithm for Continuous Engineering Optimization: Harmony Search Theory and Practice. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 194 (2005) 3902-3933.
[32] Ya-Zhang Luo, Guo-Jing Tang, Li-Ni Zhou, Hybrid Approach for Solving Systems of Nonlinear Equations Using Chaos Optimization and Quasi-Newton Method. Applied Soft Computing 8 (2008) 1068-1063.
[33] M. Mahdavi, M. Fesanghary, E. Damangir (2007), An Improved Harmony search Algorithm for Solving Optimization Problems. Applied Mathematics and Computation, 188 (2), 1567-1579.
[34] C. D. Maranas, C. A. Floudas, Finding All Solutions of Nonlinearly Constrained Systems of Equations. Journal of Global Optimization, 7(2):143-182, 1995.
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