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Global Optimization by Energy Landscape Paving

Computational Physics 2009-11-07 v1 Soft Condensed Matter Biological Physics

Abstract

We introduce a novel heuristic global optimization method, energy landscape paving (ELP), which combines core ideas from energy surface deformation and tabu search. In appropriate limits, ELP reduces to existing techniques. The approach is very general and flexible and is illustrated here on two protein folding problems. For these examples, the technique gives faster convergence to the global minimum than previous approaches.

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@article{arxiv.physics/0201054,
  title  = {Global Optimization by Energy Landscape Paving},
  author = {Luc T. Wille and U. H. E. Hansmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0201054},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett. (2002)