DocumentCode
1806150
Title
Optimization over discrete sets via SPSA
Author
Gerencsér, László ; Hill, Stacy D. ; Vágó, Zsuzsanna
Author_Institution
Comput. & Autom. Inst., Hungarian Acad. of Sci., Budapest, Hungary
Volume
2
fYear
1999
fDate
1999
Firstpage
1791
Abstract
A fixed gain version of the simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation (SPSA) method for function minimization is developed and the error process is characterized. The new procedure is applicable to optimization problems over Zp, the grid of points in Rp with integer components. Simulation results and a closely related application, a resource allocation problem, is briefly described
Keywords
approximation theory; differential equations; iterative methods; optimisation; resource allocation; search problems; stochastic processes; differential equation; function minimization; iterative method; optimization; resource allocation; search problem; simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation; Automation; Computer errors; Costs; Laboratories; Minimization methods; Noise measurement; Optimization methods; Physics computing; Resource management; Stochastic processes;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Decision and Control, 1999. Proceedings of the 38th IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location
Phoenix, AZ
ISSN
0191-2216
Print_ISBN
0-7803-5250-5
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/CDC.1999.830893
Filename
830893
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