Contents

• Acknowledgments
• List of Figures
• Introduction
• Using the local maxima
  • The problem of local maxima
  • Parallel vs serial
  • How to use the local maxima
  • How to find distant points
  • How does nature do it
• Changing the scale
  • The local optimizer
  • Why change the step size
  • How to discover the right direction
• Using the successful moves
  • The ridge problem
  • How to walk on ridges
• Results and related work
  • De Jong's test suite
  • Image guided surgery
  • Molecule energy minimization
  • Refraction tomography
  • The traveling salesman problem
• Summary and future work
• Sample code for Procedure 4.1
• References
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