BFO swMATH ID: 36962 Software Authors: Porcelli, Margherita; Toint, Philippe L. Description: BFO, a trainable derivative-free brute force optimizer for nonlinear bound-constrained optimization and equilibrium computations with continuous and discrete variables. A direct-search derivative-free Matlab optimizer for bound-constrained problems is described, whose remarkable features are its ability to handle a mix of continuous and discrete varibles, a versatile interface as well as a novel self-training option. Its performance compares favorable with that of NOMAD (Nonsmooth Optimization by Mesh Adaptive Direct Search), a well-known derivative-free optimization package. It is also applicable to multilevel equilibrium- or constrained-type problems. Its easy-to-use interface provides a number of user-oriented features, such as checkpointing and restart, variable scaling, and early termination tools. Homepage: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3085592 Keywords: derivative-free optimization; direct-search methods; mixed-integer optimization; bound constraints; trainable algorithms Related Software: NOMAD; MISO; DFL; SO-I; DFLBOX; BOBYQA; OrthoMADS; DFLGEN; MCS; MultiMin; DFBOX_IMPR; SDBOX; KELLEY; DFN; RBFOpt; UOBYQA; SNOBFIT; NEWUOA; OPAL; CUTEst Cited in: 13 Publications Standard Articles 1 Publication describing the Software, including 1 Publication in zbMATH Year BFO, a trainable derivative-free brute force optimizer for nonlinear bound-constrained optimization and equilibrium computations with continuous and discrete variables. Zbl 1484.65136Porcelli, Margherita; Toint, Philippe L. 2017 all top 5 Cited by 31 Authors 3 Lucidi, Stefano 2 Larson, Jeffrey 2 Le Digabel, Sébastien 2 Liuzzi, Giampaolo 2 Porcelli, Margherita 2 Rinaldi, Francesco 2 Tribes, Christophe 2 Wild, Stefan M. 1 Audet, Charles 1 Casella, Francesco 1 Chen, Xiaojun 1 De Santis, Alberto 1 Dellepiane, Umberto 1 Giovannelli, Tommaso 1 Kelley, Carl T. 1 Kimiaei, Morteza 1 Lakhmiri, Dounia 1 Leyffer, Sven 1 Manno, Andrea 1 Marini, Leopoldo 1 Martelli, Emanuele 1 Menickelly, Matt 1 Morini, Benedetta 1 Neumaier, Arnold 1 Palkar, Prashant 1 Ploskas, Nikolaos 1 Renzi, Stefania 1 Sahinidis, Nikolaos V. 1 Toint, Philippe L. 1 Xu, Fengmin 1 Zhang, Zaikun all top 5 Cited in 9 Serials 2 ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software 2 Journal of Global Optimization 2 Computational Optimization and Applications 2 Mathematical Programming Computation 1 SIAM Journal on Optimization 1 SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing 1 Optimization and Engineering 1 Acta Numerica 1 Optimization Letters Cited in 2 Fields 12 Operations research, mathematical programming (90-XX) 5 Numerical analysis (65-XX) Citations by Year