Optimization Theory and Methods Nonlinear Programming /

• Main Authors: Sun, Wenyu (Author), Yuan, Ya-Xiang (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2006.
• Series: Springer Optimization and Its Applications ; 1
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Computer mathematics.; Numerical analysis.; Mathematical optimization.; Operations research.; Management science.; Optimization.; Numerical Analysis.; Operations Research, Management Science.; Computational Science and Engineering.

This book, a result of the authors’ teaching and research experience in various universities and institutes over the past ten years, can be used as a textbook for an optimization course for graduates and senior undergraduates. It systematically describes optimization theory and several powerful meth...

Table of Contents:

• Line Search
• Newton’s Methods
• Conjugate Gradient Method
• Quasi-Newton Methods
• Trust-Region Methods and Conic Model Methods
• Solving Nonlinear Least-Squares Problems
• Theory of Constrained Optimization
• Quadratic Programming
• Penalty Function Methods
• Feasible Direction Methods
• Sequential Quadratic Programming
• Trust-Region Methods for Constrained Problems
• Nonsmooth Optimization.