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Evolution and Optimum Seeking

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One Dimensional Strategies 27<br />

Even more e ectivesearchschemes can be devised if the objective function is unimodal<br />

in the interval [a b]. Wilde <strong>and</strong> Beightler (1967) describe a procedure, using evenly<br />

distributed pairs of points, which is also referred to as a simultaneous dichotomous search.<br />

The distance between two points of a pair must be chosen to be su ciently large that<br />

their objective function values are di erent. As ! 0 the dichotomous search with an<br />

even number of trials (even block search) is the best. The number of trials required is<br />

2(b ; a)<br />

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