General-purpose optimisation with the Self-Organising Migrating Algorithm CRAN Task View: Optimization (http://CRAN.R-project.org/view=Optimization) This package provides an R implementation of the Self-Organising Migrating Algorithm, a general-purpose, stochastic optimisation algorithm. The approach is similar to that of genetic algorithms, although it is based on the idea of a series of ``migrations'' by a fixed set of individuals, rather than the development of successive generations. It can be applied to any cost-minimisation problem with a bounded parameter space, and is robust to local minima. Software Depends: R (>= 2.5.0) Imports: reportr Jon Clayden <jon.clayden+soma@gmail.com> Jon Clayden; based on the work of Ivan Zelinka GPL-2 2011-07-28 application/tgz http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=soma