Ramadas, Gisela C. V.Fernandes, Edite M. G. P.2014-04-012014-04-012011978-0-7354-0956-9http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/4297This papers aims at providing a combined strategy for solving systems of equalities and inequalities. The combined strategy uses two types of steps: a global search step and a local search step. The global step relies on a tabu search heuristic and the local step uses a deterministic search known as Hooke and Jeeves. The choice of step, at each iteration, is based on the level of reduction of the l2-norm of the error function observed in the equivalent system of equations, compared with the previous iteration.engSystem of equalities and inequalitiesGlobal optimizationTabu searchHooke and Jeeves searchjournal article10.1063/1.3636839