Eiselt, H. A.; Sandblom, C.-L. - In: Mathematical Methods of Operations Research 52 (2000) 2, pp. 173-183
This paper describes a constrained optimization method that was inspired by the physical equivalent of a small ball that, propelled only by gravity, is dropped from an initial point inside a full-dimensional body, represented by the set of feasible solutions. The ball will eventually hit one of...