Stochastic Optimization

• Main Authors: Schneider, Johannes Josef (Author), Kirkpatrick, Scott (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Series: Scientific Computation,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computers.; Computer mathematics.; Mathematical optimization.; Probabilities.; Physics.; Computational intelligence.; Computer Science.; Computing Methodologies.; Optimization.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.; Numerical and Computational Physics.; Computational Science and Engineering.; Computational Intelligence.

The search for optimal solutions pervades our daily lives. From the scientific point of view, optimization procedures play an eminent role whenever exact solutions to a given problem are not at hand or a compromise has to be sought, e.g. to obtain a sufficiently accurate solution within a given amou...