Practical Optimization Algorithms and Engineering Applications /

• Main Authors: Antoniou, Andreas (Author), Lu, Wu-Sheng (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2007.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Computer science > Mathematics.; Mathematical optimization.; Computational intelligence.; Control engineering.; Robotics.; Mechatronics.; Electrical engineering.; Computational Intelligence.; Mathematics of Computing.; Optimization.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.; Control, Robotics, Mechatronics.; Communications Engineering, Networks.

Practical Optimization: Algorithms and Engineering Applications provides a hands-on treatment of the subject of optimization. A comprehensive set of problems and exercises makes the book suitable for use in one or two semesters of a first-year graduate course or an advanced undergraduate course. Eac...

Table of Contents:

• The Optimization Problem
• Basic Principles
• General Properties of Algorithms
• One-Dimensional Optimization
• Basic Multidimensional Gradient Methods
• Conjugate-Direction Methods
• Quasi-Newton Methods
• Minimax Methods
• Applications of Unconstrained Optimization
• Fundamentals of Constrained Optimization
• Linear Programming Part I: The Simplex Method
• Linear Programming Part II: Interior-Point Methods
• Quadratic and Convex Programming
• Semidefinite and Second-Order Cone Programming
• General Nonlinear Optimization Problems
• Applications of Constrained Optimization.