Mead Controversy

MEAD Documentation v3.10

Grid Restrained Nelder-Mead Algorithm

Probably the most popular algorithm for unconstrained minimization for problems of moderate dimension is the Nelder-Mead algorithm published in 1965. Despite its age only limited convergence results exist. Several counterexamples can be found in the literature for which the algorithm performs badly or even fails. A convergent variant derived from the original Nelder-Mead algorithm is presented....

Paul Mead Doty (1920–2011)

Offered an attractive choice of PhD berths, he opted for Columbia, and the theoretician Joseph E. Mayer as supervisor. The war intervened and Doty was deflected for a period into work on heavy water on the periphery of the Manhattan Project. It did not impede his daytime research, which progressed rapidly: he and a fellow student, Bruno Zimm, built the country's first light-scattering instrumen...

Mead production: tradition versus modernity.

Honey is a natural product with recognized physical and chemical properties, which contribute to its biological activity. However, honey is currently being sold at low prices, making it imperative to find alternatives to make apiculture a viable national enterprise. One of these alternatives could be mead production. Despite the excellent properties of honey, mead production faces several probl...

Nelder-Mead Evolutionary Hybrid Algorithms

Real world optimization problems are often too complex to be solved through analytic means. Evolutionary algorithms are a class of algorithms that borrow paradigms from nature to address them. These are stochastic methods of optimization that maintain a population of individual solutions, which correspond to points in the search space of the problem. These algorithms have been immensely popular...