Generating a string of random numbers is easy. The hard part is proving that they’re random. As Dilbert creator Scott Adams once pointed out, “that’s the problem with randomness: you can never be sure ...

DarwinTunes, an experiment by scientists at Imperial College London, has generated music through natural selection out of randomly generate digital tones. DarwinTunes, an experiment by scientists at ...

A random search method for function minimization is presented. At each point it randomly searches for the next point, where the value of the objective function is reduced. While thus searching, it ...

Paper Open access published in Remote Sensing on February 12, 2018. Authors: Ana I. de Castro, Jorge Torres-Sánchez, José M. Peña, Francisco M. Jiménez-Brenes ...

Consider the number of steps needed by algorithms to locate the minimum of functions defined on the d-cube, where the functions are known to have no local minima except the global minimum. Regard this ...