Department of Statistics

David Bulger - Publications

D.W. Bulger, W.P. Baritompa and G.R. Wood, "Grover's Quantum Algorithm Applied to Global Optimisation'', SIAM Journal on Optimization, to appear.

D.W. Bulger, G.R. Wood, W.P. Baritompa and D.L.J. Alexander, "Backtracking Adaptive Search:  the Distribution of the Number of Iterations to Convergence'', Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, to appear.

D.W. Bulger, D.L.J. Alexander, J. Calvin, H.E. Romeijn and R. Sheriff, "Approximate Implementations of Pure Random Search in the Presence of Noise'', Journal of Global Optimization, to appear.

D.W. Bulger and H.E. Romeijn, "Optimising Noisy Objective Functions'', Journal of Global Optimization, to appear.

D.W. Bulger, D.L.J. Alexander, W.P. Baritompa, G.R. Wood and  Z.B. Zabinsky, "Expected Hitting Times for Backtracking Adaptive Search'', Optimization 53 (2004) 189--202.

D.W. Bulger, D.L.J. Alexander and G.R. Wood, "Expected Search Duration for Finite Backtracking Adaptive Search'', Algorithms 47 (2003) 78--86.

D.W. Bulger, W.P. Baritompa and G.R. Wood, "Implementing Pure Adaptive Search with Grover's Quantum Algorithm'', Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications 116 (2003) 517--529.

D.W. Bulger, G.R. Wood and D.L.J. Alexander, "Approximation of the Distribution of Convergence Times for Stochastic Global Optimisation'', Journal of Global Optimization 22 (2002) 271--284.

D.W. Bulger, G.R. Wood, D.L.J. Alexander, W.P. Baritompa and Z.B. Zabinsky, "Adaptive Search Theory for Global Optimisation'', New Zealand Science Review 58 (2001) 24--28.

D.W. Bulger and G.R. Wood, "Hesitant Adaptive Search for Global Optimisation'', Mathematical Programming 81 (1998) 89--102.

D.W. Bulger and G.R. Wood, "On the Convergence of Localisation Search'', State of the Art in Global Optimisation: Computational Methods and Applications, edited by C. Floudas and P. Pardalos (1996) Kluwer Academic Publishers.

D.W. Bulger and B. van-Brunt, "An Existence and Uniqueness Theorem for a Certain Class of Functional Equations'', New Zealand Journal of Mathematics 22 (1993) 9--21.