Integrated Methods for Optimization

• Main Author: Hooker, John N. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2012.
• Series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, 170
• Subjects: Business.; Management science.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Computer science > Mathematics.; Computers.; Mathematical models.; Mathematical optimization.; Business and Management.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Optimization.; Computing Methodologies.; Mathematics of Computing.; Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics.; Business and Management, general.

The first edition of Integrated Methods for Optimization was published in January 2007. Because the book covers a rapidly developing field, the time is right for a second edition. The book provides a unified treatment of optimization methods. It brings ideas from mathematical programming (MP), const...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Examples
• Optimization Basics
• Duality
• Search
• Inference
• Relaxation
• Dictionary of Constraints.     .