NAME

Sim::OPT::Descend.

SYNOPSIS

use Sim::OPT;
opt;

DESCRIPTION

Sim::OPT::Descent is a module collaborating with the Sim::OPT module for performing block coordinate descent or parallel blocks search, or free mixes of the two. It closes the circularly recursive loop formed by Sim::OPT -> Sim::OPT::Morph -> Sim::OPT::Sim -> Sim::OPT::Report::report -> Sim::OPT::Descent, which repeats at every search cycle.

The objective function for rating the performances of the candidate solutions can be obtained by the weighting of objective functions (performance indicators) performed by the Sim::OPT::Report module, which follows user-specified criteria.

This module is dual-licensed, open-source and proprietary. The open-source distribution is available on CPAN (https://metacpan.org/dist/Sim-OPT ). A proprietary distribution, including additional modules (OPTcue), is available from the author’s website (https://sites.google.com/view/bioclimatic-design/home/software ).

EXPORT

"descend".

SEE ALSO

An example of configuration file for block search ("des.pl") is packed in "optw.zip" file in "examples" directory in this distribution. But mostly, reference to the source code may be made.

AUTHOR

Gian Luca Brunetti, <gianluca.brunetti@polimi.it>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2008-2025 by Gian Luca Brunetti, gianluca.brunetti@gmail.com. This software is distributed under a dual licence, open-source (GPL v3) and proprietary. The present copy is GPL. By consequence, this is free software. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 3.