Evolutionary search to minimize a function: For points in the current
generation, children are formed by taking a linear combination of parents,
i.e., each member of the next generation has the form
$$p_1 + r(p_2 - p_3)$$
where the \(p_i\) are members of the current generation and \(r\) is an
amplification factor.
References
Dirk Laurie. ``A Complex Optimization". Chapter 5 In: F. Bornemann,
D. Laurie, S. Wagon, and J. Waldvogel (Eds.). The SIAM 100-Digit Challenge.
Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2004.