Fernandes, Edite M.G.P.Pereira, Ana I.2011-06-012011-06-012006Fernandes, Edite M.G.P.; Pereira, Ana I. (2006). A stretched imulated annealing method to identify global solutions. In the Iberian Conference in Optimization. Coimbra - Portugal.http://hdl.handle.net/10198/4849In this talk we consider the problem of finding all the global solutions of a nonlinear optimization problem. We propose a new algorithm that combines the simulated annealing method with a stretching function technique in order to generate a sequence of global optimization problems that are defined whenever a new global solution is identified. Computational experiments with a set of well-known test problems show that the proposed method is effective.engSimulated annealingGlobal optimizationconference object