@Article{Huyer:2008:SSN, author = "Waltraud Huyer and Arnold Neumaier", title = "SNOBFIT Stable Noisy Optimization by Branch and Fit", journal = "{ACM} Transactions on Mathematical Software", volume = "35", number = "2", month = jul, year = "2008", pages = "9:1--9:25", URL = "http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1377612.1377613", abstract = "The software package SNOBFIT for bound constrained (and soft constrained) noisy optimization of an expensive objective function is described. It combines global and local search by branching and local fits. The program is made robust and flexible for practical use by allowing for hidden constraints, batch function evaluations, change of search regions, etc.", }