How does fmincon work?

Does anyone know how does Fmincon work its way to finding a optimal (minimum solution)? I am trying to compare this method as to using a kriging model.

[John D'Errico]

How are the inner workings of fmincon even remotely relevant to kriging?

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As far as the inner workings of fmincon, it is an optimization tool. To give you a good understanding would require our writing a book on optimization. But there are MANY good books on optimization.

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[Azzi Abdelmalek]

Benho, have you read the documentation? There are many examples there: http://www.mathworks.com/help/optim/ug/fmincon.html