Advances in Global Optimization

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gao, David (Editor), Ruan, Ning (Editor), Xing, Wenxun (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, 95
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Calculus of variations.; Mathematical optimization.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control; Optimization.; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.; Continuous Optimization.; Discrete Optimization.
• Physical Description: XIII, 537 p. 111 illus., 59 illus. in color. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783319083773
• ISSN: 2194-1009 ;

This proceedings volume addresses advances in global optimization—a multidisciplinary research field that deals with the analysis, characterization, and computation of global minima and/or maxima of nonlinear, non-convex, and nonsmooth functions in continuous or discrete forms. The volume contains selected papers from the third biannual World Congress on Global Optimization in Engineering & Science (WCGO), held in the Yellow Mountains, Anhui, China on July 8-12, 2013. The papers fall into eight topical sections: mathematical programming; combinatorial optimization; duality theory; topology optimization; variational inequalities and complementarity problems; numerical optimization; stochastic models and simulation; and complex simulation and supply chain analysis.