[SciPy-Dev] optimize - add algorithm for global optimization: GenSA

[Sturla Molden]

On 15/11/15 04:51, Charles R Harris wrote:

> The most reliable, if slow, method was a GA.

GAs are great, but it hard to wrap them in a general routine we could 
put in SciPy. The parameters have to be codable in such a way that we 
can meaningfully simulate recombinations and mutations.

Tabu search is also a method that can compete with SA, but does not have 
the same tendency to go astray.


Sturla