Applications of Global Optimization
Typical examples of global optimization applications include:
- Protein structure prediction (minimize the energy/free energy function)
- Computational phylogenetics (e.g., minimize the number of character transformations in the tree)
- Traveling salesman problem and electrical circuit design (minimize the path length)
- Chemical engineering (e.g., analyzing the Gibbs free energy)
- Safety verification, safety engineering (e.g., of mechanical structures, buildings)
- Worst case analysis
- Mathematical problems (e.g., the Kepler conjecture)
- Object packing (configuration design) problems
- The starting point of several molecular dynamics simulations consists of an initial optimization of the energy of the system to be simulated.
- Spin glasses
- Calibration of radio propagation models and of many other models in the sciences and engineering
- Curve fitting like Non-linear least squares analysis and other generalizations, used in fitting model parameters to experimental data in chemistry, physics, medicine, astronomy, engineering.
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