Can basin-hopping be applied for global constrained optimization?

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Can we implement Basin-Hopping approach for constrained optimization problems ? The literature suggests it for unconstrained global optimization, but I have a few constraints. Can it be adapted for constraints handling ?

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Basin-hopping was initially designed for unconstrained global optimisation problems. You can extend it to constrained optimisation problems if you can take care of unfeasibilities.

Look for instance to http://www.optimization-online.org/DB_FILE/2008/11/2150.pdf.