MS03 - New Advances in Derivative-Free Optimization Methods for Engineering Optimization

Organized by:
J.F. Aguilar Madeira, IDMEC-IST and ISEL, Portugal
A.L. Custódio, CMA/FCT-UNL, Portugal

Description:
Practical engineering applications pose difficult challenges to classical derivative-based methods. Expensive function evaluation, noisy functions, non-smoothness are some of the features commonly present in real world engineering problems, which justify the resource to Derivative-Free Optimization (DFO) techniques. In the past decades, several classes of DFO algorithms have been analyzed and new ones have been proposed. The convergence analysis of some of these methods is well established and practical numerical solvers are available for use. Nevertheless, subjects like Global Optimization, Multiobjective Optimization, large-scale problems are still hot-topics inside the DFO community. The purpose of this mini-symposium is to bring together researchers which develop and/or apply DFO techniques in engineering optimization. We welcome new theoretical developments in DFO methods as well as its application to real engineering problems.