This paper presents motivations and algorithmic details of some generalized controlled random search (CRS) algorithms for global optimization. It also carries out an extensive numerical study of the generalized CRS algorithms to demonstrate their superiorities over their original counterparts....

A novel monotonization method is proposed for converting a non-monotone programming problem into a monotone programming problem. An equivalent monotone programming problem with only inequality constraints is obtained via this monotonization method. Then the existing convexification and...