EVOP

“For Devices & Systems Designers”

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Copyright C 2007 by Sayeed Nurul Ghani.

EVOP — Evolutionary Operation

  • A number of algorithms are available in the name of EVOP.  Search in Google or Dogpile.
  • But this EVOP is unique in its speed, accuracy and flexibility.
  • It appears EVOP is the ‘silver bullet’ that has succeeded in slaying the  dragon’ of dimensionality in multiple minima bound objective functions.

Nothing comparable is available to date.

Features of EVOP

  • Capability to locate directly with high probability the global minimum.
  • Capability to deal with possible finite number of discontinuities in nonlinear objective and constraining functions.
  • Ability to minimize directly an objective function without requiring information on gradient or sub-gradient.
  • Ability to deal with objective functions having a mix of continuous, discrete and integer variables as arguments.
  • No requirement for scaling of objective and constraining functions.
  • Capability for optimization even when there are more than one of the above difficulties are simultaneously present.
  • Facility for automatic restarts to check whether the previously obtained minimum is the global minimum.
  • Capability to optimize physical systems in real-time or accelerated time; eg optimal adaptive control of physical systems.
  • Objective function is never evaluated in the infeasible region; as a consequence the safety of the plant or system is not in jeopardy at any time because of optimization.
  • Gradient or sub-gradient is not required, thus ensuring that noise in measurement will not be accentuated to adversely effect the optimization process.
  • Inherent ability to cope with realistic hard time constraint requirement imposed by real-time.

 

Description : This explains what EVOP is all about, its fields of deployment and how to benefit from it. EVOP is the ‘silver bullet’ that has succeeded in slaying the ‘dragon’ of dimensionality in multiple minima bound objective functions. Nothing comparable is available to date.
Copyright C 2007 by Sayeed Nurul Ghani. All rights reserved.