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VRBBO performs an approximate unconstrained global minimization of a not
necessarily smooth function of many continuous arguments. 
No gradients are needed.

A limited amount of noise is tolerated. 

The program was written by Morteza Kimiaei (University of Vienna). 
Please inform the author at kimiaeim83@univie.ac.at if you make 
serious use of this code. 

This directory contains 

* the Matlab source code for Version 3.2 (July 2, 2021), 
* a driver program driverVRBBO.m showing its use, 
* and the paper

M. Kimiaei and A. Neumaier,
Efficient unconstrained black box optimization,
resubmitted (2021).
http://www.mat.univie.ac.at/~neum/ms/VRBBO.pdf

This paper describes the method implemented and some test results. 
Please cite this paper when using this package in scientific work.


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