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21<strong>in</strong> two different ways. One is to keep track and limit the total number <strong>of</strong> unsuccessfulsearches. A second method would be to limit the number <strong>of</strong> sequential searches thatfail.3.5 Algorithm SummaryTo summarize, we were able to exploit the polynomial structure <strong>of</strong> the objectivefunction and constra<strong>in</strong>ts which allowed us to f<strong>in</strong>d the feasible regions and m<strong>in</strong>imizethe objective function easily for the scalar problem. For problems <strong>in</strong> IR n , we used anaff<strong>in</strong>e transformation to do global l<strong>in</strong>e searches. The heart <strong>of</strong> the algorithm lies <strong>in</strong> thechoos<strong>in</strong>g the search direction, which is done each iteration. Because <strong>of</strong> the randomness<strong>in</strong>volved <strong>in</strong> choos<strong>in</strong>g search directions, the algorithm is not determ<strong>in</strong>istic.

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