Random Linkage: a family of acceptance/rejection algorithms for global optimisation

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   Marco Locatelli

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Received July 24, 1997 / Revised version received August 9, 1998 Published online January 20, 1999

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Locatelli, M., Schoen, F. Random Linkage: a family of acceptance/rejection algorithms for global optimisation. Math. Program. 85, 379–396 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s101070050062

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• Issue Date: June 1999

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s101070050062

• Key words: global optimisation – random search – stochastic algorithms – clustering