DIRECT is a method to solve global bound constraint optimization problems and was originally developed by D. R. Jones, C. D. Perttunen and B. E. Stuckmann.
scipydirect is a python wrapper around DIRECT. It enables using DIRECT from the comfort of the Python scripting language.
The scipydirect package uses the Fortran implementation of DIRECT written by Joerg M. Gablonsky, DIRECT Version 2.0.4. More information on the DIRECT algorithm can be found in Gablonsky's thesis.
scipydirect is a fork of pydirect. It provides an alternative interface to the DIRECT algorithm compatible with that used in scipy.optimize.
Use setup.py:
python setup.py install
After installing:
cd doc make html
Then, direct your browser to build/html/index.html.
To run the tests with the interpreter available as python, use:
cd test python test_direct.py
scipydirect is open-source code released under the MIT License.
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