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Overlapping Branch and Bound 
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**Release:** |version| 

**Date:** |today|

**Author:** `J. M. Fowkes <jaroslav.fowkes@ed.ac.uk>`_

oBB is an algorithm for the parallel global optimization of functions with Lipchitz continuous gradient or Hessian.

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   :maxdepth: 2

   install
   userguide
  
Acknowledgements
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This work was supported by EPSRC grants `EP/I028854/1 <http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/I028854/1>`_ (PI: `Dr Coralia Cartis <http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/people/profiles/coralia.cartis>`_) and NAIS `EP/G036136/1 <http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/G036136/1>`_.
We are also grateful to `Prof Nick Gould <http://www.numerical.rl.ac.uk/people/nimg/>`_ for his help and advice during development, Mehdi Towhidi for providing us with his `PyQuadProg code <http://github.com/mpy/PyQuadProg>`_ and Alberto Guida for his range reduction strategy enhancement.
   
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   * :ref:`genindex`
   * :ref:`modindex` 
   * :ref:`search`
