Homework No. 1 - SP4E Course

Mahmoud Shaqfa, Igor Tomić

Ex.No.2 "Exercise2.py", includes an algortihm for the Conjegate Gradient (CG) algorithm and plots the iterative steps over the objective's surface. The program can be run using the terminal command: python3 Exercise2.py.

The file "Benchmark2.py" is a file to benchmark the solution of the pre-proposed problem. This file is a direct application for a musical-inspired algorithm. It's a general algorithm that can solve any type of the optimization problems of any hardness. For more information about it refer to:

• Geem, Zong Woo, Joong Hoon Kim, and G. V. Loganathan (2001). "A new heuristic optimization algorithm: harmony search." Simulation 76.2: pp. 60-68.

or: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmony_search