Metadata-Version: 2.0
Name: lpfgopt
Version: 0.6.2
Summary: Leap Frog Optimizer
Home-page: http://www.r3eda.com/
Author: Mark Redd
Author-email: redddogjr@gmail.com
License: UNKNOWN
Download-URL: https://sourceforge.net/projects/leapfrog-optimizer/
Platform: UNKNOWN
Requires-Dist: nose
Requires-Dist: numpy

README.rst

title          : Leap Frog Optimizer Package
version        : 0.6.2 ALPHA
last modified  : 11 April 2017 
author         : Mark Redd
email          : redddogjr@gmail.com


optimizer algorithm website: http://www.r3eda.com/

about:

    This optimizer was written based on the algorithm published by
    Dr. R. Russell Rhinehart.

    A full explanation of the algorithm can be found at the following URL:

    http://www.r3eda.com/leapfrogging-optimization-algorithm/

    The following are "key references" published on
    the optimization website explaining the technique:

      - Rhinehart, R. R., M. Su, and U. Manimegalai-Sridhar,
        Leapfrogging and Synoptic Leapfrogging: a new optimization approach,
        Computers & Chemical Engineering, Vol. 40, 11 May 2012, pp. 67-81.

      - Manimegalai-Sridhar, U., A. Govindarajan, and R. R. Rhinehart,
        Improved Initialization of Players in Leapfrogging Optimization,
        Computers & Chemical Engineering, Vol. 60, 2014, 426-429.

      - Rhinehart, R. R.,
        Convergence Criterion in Optimilsation of Stochastic Processes,
        Computers & Chemical Engineering, Vol. 68, 4 Sept 2014, pp 1-6.


installation:



