| Article ID: | iaor19941488 |
| Country: | Switzerland |
| Volume: | 21 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Start Page Number: | 293 |
| End Page Number: | 306 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 1993 |
| Journal: | Engineering Optimization |
| Authors: | Cai Jianbo, Thierauf Georg |
| Keywords: | programming: integer, design |
The paper describes an improved penalty function method to solve nonlinear discrete optimization problems. A general method to estimate a suitable initial value of the penalty factor and a technique to avoid repetition of inefficient iterations are suggested here.