mads (mesh adaptive direct search)

Algorithm 909: NOMAD: Nonlinear Optimization with the MADS algorithm

  • Sébastien Le Digabel
    • Categories Applications - OR and Management Sciences, Optimization Software and Modeling Systems Tags , , , ,

    NOMAD is software that implements the MADS algorithm (Mesh Adaptive Direct Search) for black-box optimization under general nonlinear constraints. Blackbox optimization is about optimizing functions that are usually given as costly programs with no derivative information and no function values returned for a significant number of calls attempted. NOMAD is designed for such problems and … Read more