<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD JATS (Z39.96) Journal Publishing DTD v1.0 20120330//EN" "JATS-journalpublishing1.dtd">
<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" article-type="research-article">
	<front>
		<journal-meta>
			<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">INFORMATICA</journal-id>
			<journal-title-group>
				<journal-title>Informatica</journal-title>
			</journal-title-group>
			<issn pub-type="epub">0868-4952</issn>
			<issn pub-type="ppub">0868-4952</issn>
			<publisher>
				<publisher-name>VU</publisher-name>
			</publisher>
		</journal-meta>
		<article-meta>
			<article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">INF9302</article-id>
			<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3233/INF-1998-9301</article-id>
			<article-categories>
				<subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
					<subject>Research article</subject>
				</subj-group>
			</article-categories>
			<title-group>
				<article-title>Local Search Efficiency when Optimizing Unimodal Pseudoboolean Functions</article-title>
			</title-group>
			<contrib-group>
				<contrib contrib-type="Author">
					<name>
						<surname>Antamoshkin</surname>
						<given-names>Alexander</given-names>
					</name>
					<email xlink:href="mailto:ant@iea.krasnoyarsk.su">ant@iea.krasnoyarsk.su</email>
					<xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/>
				</contrib>
				<contrib contrib-type="Author">
					<name>
						<surname>Semenkin</surname>
						<given-names>Eugene</given-names>
					</name>
					<xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/>
				</contrib>
				<aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000">Siberian Aerospace Academy, P.O.Box 486, Krasnoyarsk, Russia-660014</aff>
			</contrib-group>
			<pub-date pub-type="epub">
				<day>01</day>
				<month>01</month>
				<year>1998</year>
			</pub-date>
			<volume>9</volume>
			<issue>3</issue>
			<fpage>279</fpage>
			<lpage>296</lpage>
			<history>
				<date date-type="received">
					<day>01</day>
					<month>01</month>
					<year>1998</year>
				</date>
			</history>
			<abstract>
				<p>This work is a continuation of our previous papers devoted to exploration of the regular search procedures efficiency in binary search spaces. Here we formulate the problem in a rather general form as a problem of optimization of an unimodal pseudoboolean function given implicitly and obtain analitical estimates of the expected time of a minimum point search for procedures of direct local search. These estimates are polinomial for the case of weakly nonmonotone functions and exponential for the general case of arbitrary unimodal functions. We hope that the proposed result will be usefull first of all for practical applications.</p>
			</abstract>
			<kwd-group>
				<label>Keywords</label>
				<kwd>unimodal pseudoboolean functions</kwd>
				<kwd>local search techniques</kwd>
				<kwd>convergence analysis</kwd>
			</kwd-group>
		</article-meta>
	</front>
</article>