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Abstract

Many different heuristics have been proposed for selecting the subdivision direction in branch–and–bound result-verifying nonlinear solvers. We investigate the impact of the box-splitting techniques on the overall performance of the solver and propose a new approach combining some of the simple heuristics in a hybrid way. Numerical experiments with medium–sized example problems indicate that our approach is successful. (© 2004 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)