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<!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">INF2206</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3233/INF-1991-2206</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>On a possibility to use gradients in statistical models of global optimization of objective functions</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Makauskas</surname><given-names>Algirdas</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/></contrib><aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000">Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, 232600 Vilnius, Akademijos St.4, Lithuania</aff></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>01</day><month>01</month><year>1991</year></pub-date><volume>2</volume><issue>2</issue><fpage>248</fpage><lpage>254</lpage><abstract><p>In well-known statistical models of global optimization only values of objective functions are taken into consideration. However, efficient algorithms of local optimization are also based on the use of gradients of objective functions. Thus, we are interested in a possibility of the use of gradients in statistical models of multimodal functions, aiming to create productive algorithms of global optimization.</p></abstract><kwd-group><label>Keywords</label><kwd>global optimization</kwd><kwd>Gaussian stationary field</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>