| Article ID: | iaor1998439 |
| Country: | Cuba |
| Volume: | 17 |
| Issue: | 1/3 |
| Start Page Number: | 11 |
| End Page Number: | 18 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1996 |
| Journal: | Revista de Investigacin Operacional |
| Authors: | Jhones Alina Ruiz, Fiallo Luis Angel Ledesma |
| Keywords: | direct search |
The application of several non-derivative search techniques to the solution of the non-linear constrained programming problem via a penalty approach is examined. The result of numerical experiments with different test-problems, some of them very non-convex, is shown. A computer code implementing this strategy is offered.