Welcome to pydirect’s documentation!

DIRECT Package

DIRECT - A python wrapper to the DIRECT algorithm.

DIRECT is a method to solve global bound constraint optimization problems and was originally developed by D. R. Jones, C. D. Perttunen and B. E. Stuckmann. It is designed to find global solutions of mathematical optimization problems of the from

subject to

Where are the optimization variables (with upper an lower bounds), is the objective function.

The DIRECT package uses the fortan implementation of DIRECT written by Joerg.M.Gablonsky, DIRECT Version 2.0.4. More information on the DIRECT algorithm can be found in Gablonsky’s thesis.

Contents:

• Installation
• Tutorial
  • Solving the six-hump camelback function
• Reference

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page